Tigran PASKEVICHYAN

After the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in Rambouillet back in February of this year, the word Rambouillet is no longer known as a special name or the name of a castle. Rambouillet is a clear and simple word, which…No, don’t open the dictionary because it’s a new word and you won’t find …

If you take a look at the “Regnum” media web site, you will see that on May 19-21, Armenia took part in the “Book Expo 2006” international exhibition held in Washington D.C., where it represented about 50 historical, artistic, children’s, as well as encyclopedic books by Armenian authors. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had informed …

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of Armenia’s independence. Two years later, Armenians will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Karabagh movement. The anniversary celebrations and festivals will coincide with the presidential elections. One of the Karabagh movement torch-bearers will hand over the torch to the next leader. The handing over and acceptation will be …

The murder of the seventeen-year old Armenian in Moscow and the attack on the secretary of the Armenian Cinema Union should have shocked Armenians living in Armenia and abroad. I’m not obligating both societies to be shocked when I say “should have”; I simply mean to say that the smart members of the society should …

Yesterday I happened to find one of the “Azg” newspaper’s 2002 editions. While I was drinking my morning coffee, I paged through the newspaper and took a look at the old article titles. The article on the last page of the edition told the story of how the Turkish government and some ministries were getting …

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 is one of the dark pages of Armenian history. In the aftermath of the massacres in the Ottoman Empire, Armenians lost one and a half million compatriots and the land belonging to us, which was under the control of the empire at the time. The nine decades following the tragic …

In 356 B.C., Aerostat burned down the temple of Artemis so that he could reach fame and go down in history. It seems as though he was able to do that. In 1980 A.C., American Mark Chapman killed a famous member of the Beatles John Lennon. Chapman explained why he did that simply as his …

I finally understood what “young generation” means. I found out the meaning of this during my recent visit to the regions of Armenia and Karabagh while talking with the parents, teachers and elders of the mentioned generation. But let’s leave the “young generation” aside for the moment and draw our attention to the most important …

Armenians mainly blame the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as the political elite of each country for the failure of the Karabagh conflict negotiations in Rambulle, but in reality there are other reasons. However, this doesn’t mean that the “elite” of each country is not hindering the negotiations process. They are hindering it …

John Milton, who was truly considered as the founder of the bureaucratic theory of free media, believed that a person must have the opportunity to hear what others say and say what he wants to say. “Give me the freedom to know, express my own opinions and, most importantly, judge without a sense of remorse,” …