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Armenia: Arrest of government critic on coup charges prompts concerns

Armenia: Arrest of government critic on coup charges prompts concerns

Dec 14, 2006 | , ,

As political tensions in Armenia rise ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, the arrest of a former Nagorno-Karabakh military commander critical of the Armenian government’s talks with Azerbaijan is raising fresh concerns about how the vote will be conducted.

In a December 10 raid carried out by masked agents of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) at a Yerevan restaurant, Zhirayr Sefilian, an ethnic Armenian from Lebanon, was taken into custody on charges of plotting a government coup. Sefilian, a former commander in Armenia’s war with Azerbaijan over the predominantly ethnic Armenian breakaway territory of Karabakh, is a decorated, hard-line war hero. He is an outspoken opponent of any deal with Azerbaijan that includes the return of territory currently under Armenian control.

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An Arms Race in the South Caucasus?

An Arms Race in the South Caucasus?

Jun 26, 2005 | , , ,

Agence France Press (AFP) reports that the Azerbaijani military budget has increased by 70 per cent this year to $300 million, largely as a result of increased oil revenues. The largest of the three South Caucasus republics inauguarated a multi-billion oil pipeline from Baku to the Turkish port of Ceyhan last month. AFP says the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline will bring in as much as $160 billion into the impoverished country over the next 30 years.

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South Caucasus Parliamentary Assembly

South Caucasus Parliamentary Assembly

Jun 18, 2005 | , , ,

ArmenPress reports that Nino Burjanadze, Speaker of the Georgian parliament, Deputy Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosian, and Siyavush Novruzov, a parliament member from Azerbaijan’s ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party, have signed a tripartite memorandum to establish a regional Parliamentary Assembly in the South Caucasus.

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Clearing The Killing Fields

Clearing The Killing Fields

Jun 20, 2004 |

GYULABLY, Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan — A few kilometers from the border of the unrecognized breakaway and self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, a shepherd sits with his grazing cattle in the lush pastures of Armenian-controlled Azerbaijan. The scene could grace the front of any postcard from the scenic Caucasus. The twisted carcasses of rusting vehicles along the roadside tell a different story, though.
The shepherd is sitting in a minefield.

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Life In No Mans Land

Life In No Mans Land

Jun 9, 2001 |

Text and photographs by Onnik James Krikorian LACHIN — Anyone taking the road from Goris to Stepanakert has passed through Lachin, the strategic main artery in the lifeline between Armenia and the self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Few actually visit the town...

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Journalism

Journalism

Aug 23, 2021 |

   LACHIN: LIFE IN NO MAN'S LANDAnyone taking the road from Goris to...

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Armenia-Azerbaijan: The Risks for Georgia

Oct 27, 2020 | , , , , , ,

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has published my latest update on how the 2020 Karabakh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan might affect Georgia’s two largest ethnic minorities. In 2016, OpenDemocracy published a similar piece of mine following the 4-day war. Local ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society activists warn that radicalisation among some individuals in the two communities continues, but that the situation still nonetheless remains relatively calm. This is an issue that does need to be monitored, however.

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Woodstock in the South Caucasus

Woodstock in the South Caucasus

Sep 11, 2017 | , , ,

Stratfor has published my text and photographs on the One Caucasus Festival held in the village of Tserakvi in Georgia. It’s aim is to bring together young Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian musicians and other artists to work together to build a common image of a united and peaceful region.

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Progress and Challenges: Armenian and Azerbaijani Leaders Meet in EU-facilitated Talks in Brussels

Progress and Challenges: Armenian and Azerbaijani Leaders Meet in EU-facilitated Talks in Brussels

Jul 20, 2023

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met again on Saturday (15 July) for talks in Brussels facilitated by European Council President Charles Michel. The meeting was the second this year in this format and comes hot on the heels of a U.S.-facilitated talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in June as well as new developments on the strategic highway connecting Armenia with what remains of the former Soviet-era Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO).

Meeting between Armenia and Azerbaijan: little progress for Nagorno Karabakh

Meeting between Armenia and Azerbaijan: little progress for Nagorno Karabakh

Jul 5, 2023

In early June in Chisinau, Moldova, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, would meet again in Arlington, Virginia, on June 12. However, the meeting facilitated by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken only took place on June 27. Baku had requested a postponement the week before due to the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, fresh from re-election, scheduled for June 12-13.

Breaking bread in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

Breaking bread in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

Jun 27, 2023

“It is also too early to talk about ‘culinary diplomacy’ in the Karabakh conflict, sometimes also referred to as ‘gastrodiplomacy,’ though countless state banquets demonstrate that is by no means a new concept,” writes Onnik James Krikorian in this op-ed for commonspace.eu.