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Opinion Divided on Armenian Withdrawal from Eurovision

Opinion Divided on Armenian Withdrawal from Eurovision

Mar 22, 2012 | , ,

Eurovision, the international music competition for members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), has been no stranger to controversy ever since it was launched in Europe in 1956, but the inclusion in recent years of post-Soviet countries has taken international rivalry over what is otherwise considered by many to be a somewhat kitsch event, to new heights. The three countries making up the South Caucasus are no exception and especially since Armenia participated for the first time in 2006. Georgia followed in 2007, as did Azerbaijan the following year.

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Online Social Networks in Armenia-Azerbaijan peacebuilding and cross-border communication

Online Social Networks in Armenia-Azerbaijan peacebuilding and cross-border communication

Dec 26, 2010 | , , ,

Since taking the first tentative steps to bring bloggers from Armenia and Azerbaijan together online in June 2008, it’s been both amazing and surprising to look back at how new media has managed to encourage and facilitate communication between the two countries. Locked into a bitter conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the online environment which exists today was unimaginable two and half years ago. Even professionally it has opened up new possibilities. As a journalist, for example, the first time I ever co-penned an article with a counterpart in Azerbaijan, ironically enough entitled Nagorno Karabakh Dispute Takes to Cyberspace, was in isolation. We both wrote two separate pieces and submitted them to an American editor who then cut and put them together as one. Today, even though many publications covering the Caucasus still work like this, I can now do so without any in between involved.

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Culture That Unites Rather Than Divides

Culture That Unites Rather Than Divides

Dec 21, 2010 |

Text and photographs by Onnik James Krikorian TBILISI, Georgia — An Azeri teahouse, and naturally Azerbaijani can be heard spoken inside. A dozen men, identical in appearance, sit at tables, chain smoking and drinking cups of çay (tea). “Salam,” we say, before...

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Georgia Dispatches: The Aftermath

Georgia Dispatches: The Aftermath

Aug 15, 2008 | ,

With reports that much of Russia’s military presence in Georgia has been withdrawn, reflection on a serious conflict which threatened to ignite the entire South Caucasus is becoming more and more the order of the day. For whatever reasons, and whoever is to blame, the conflict between Russia and Georgia was the most serious for years. Despite Russian claims of thousands dead, hundreds died in South Ossetia and Georgia proper, and tens of thousands lost their homes in military action reminiscent of the ethnic cleansing which devastated the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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The Night They Kicked The Rule Of Law To Death

The Night They Kicked The Rule Of Law To Death

Mar 30, 2002 |

When one of President Robert Kocharian’s bodyguards was arrested for killing a civilian, Armenians hoped justice would prevail. But the subsequent trial was so flawed that many Armenians now believe judicial independence is as dead as the victim of the incident.

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Armenia’s Constitutional Conundrum

Armenia’s Constitutional Conundrum

Jun 15, 2024

Despite progress between Armenia and Azerbaijan over border delimitation and demarcation, another issue threatens to hinder the signing of a long-awaited agreement to normalise relations. Baku now demands that Yerevan first removes from its constitution a controversial preamble referencing the 1990 Declaration of Independence.