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Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan has strongly condemned the move of Yerevan City Council member Henrik Hartenyan against Armenian top court head Hrayr Tovmasyan's daughter. ArmDaily reported that Henrik Hartenyan, who represents the ruling My Step faction in the City Council, posted a photo of Sara Tov...

The Economist published its Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2019, according to which Armenia continued recording progress in the field of democracy, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during today’s Cabinet meeting, adding that according to the 2019 results Armenian received 5.54 score compared to the previous 4.79 score an...

In the 2019 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) annual Democracy Index, which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide, the average global score fell from 5.48 in 2018 to 5.44 on a scale of 0-10. This is the worst score since the index was first produced in 2006. The 2019 result is even worse than...

In September 1918, 23 thousand Armenians fell victim of thoroughly planned pogroms against the ethnic Armenian population of Baku. Stores, houses and oil factories owned by Armenians were razed to ground or looted. The Armenian community of Baku suffered not only human but also financial losses. The pogroms started in mid-Septem...

Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages grew by 3.0% in Armenia December 2019 from the previous month, which was largely prompted by 4.9% and 19.9% rise in vegetable and fruit prices, respectively, the latest official statistics show. According to the data published by the Statistical Committee, fruit prices dropped by 2.7%...

By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier I responded last month to the interview given by the newly-elected Patriarch of Turkey, Bishop Sahak II Mashalyan, to a Turkish newspaper in which he had criticized the adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the U.S. Senate. Since then, the Armenian world was dis...

Forbes has compiled the Not Hot List of countries where growing number of tourists are recommended by tourist agencies to visit in 2020. It is noted that closed countries are opening up. Savvy luxury agencies are making remote destinations accessible to travelers who don’t want to rough it or risk much. The list features also A...

The situation across the Line of Contact between Artsakh and Azerbaijan remained relatively stable throughout 2019, the Defense Army of the Artsakh Republic said in a statement, summing up the year 2019. According to the released statement, large-scale engineering works implemented on daily basis as well as continuous process ...

Armenian’s main New Year tree set up in capital Yerevan has been named among the three tallest New Year trees in the capitals of the CIS countries. The 37-meter high Yerevan New Year tree comes second on the list compiled by TurStat analytical agency after that of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, which is 40 meters high. The New Year ...

In the 1980s, British scholar Benedict Anderson put forward a rather contradictory notion of an "imagined community" to study nationalism, which he had great difficulty in justifying and making acceptable. Today, the existence of the "Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh" could serve as a good rationale for how a group of ...