Bahruz Samadov is an activist at the Azerbaijani Nida Civil Movement and a PhD candidate at Charles University in Prague.
A recent speech by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev shows a shift towards a new anti-European conservatism and an attempt to cultivate a new base amongst Azerbaijani youth against the background of dwindling popular support and an ideological vacuum. [Read more…]
Artyom Yerkanyan posing in front of the Maiden Tower in Baku.
A three-day exchange between Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists has concluded — the first exchange of its kind in almost two decades. [Read more…]
Tigran Grigoryan is a political analyst and one of the leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh’s opposition National Revival Party.
The Velvet Revolution has shaken up politics in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the 2020 elections may spell an end for the republic’s old regime.
Far from the animosity that defines our political reality, music has for centuries brought Armenians and Azerbaijanis together in a way that may once again offer us a way forward. [Read more…]
Nikol Pashinyan (centre) in Stepanakert with Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan (left) and the President of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan (right) (official photo)
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called for ‘unification’ between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, in a wide-ranging speech that was delivered amidst an atmosphere of tension between authorities in Yerevan and Stepanakert. [Read more…]
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Armenia has abstained from voting on a UN resolution calling for the return of IDPs to Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the first time since 2008, when the resolution was first introduced. Armenia had previously always voted against the resolution in the annual votes at the UN General Assembly. [Read more…]
Marneuli Public Library (Rahim Shaliyev /OC Media)
Azerbaijan has been supplying Georgian libraries with books containing hate speech against Armenians. While the libraries don’t see them as a problem, some Azerbaijani Georgians fear they might help plant the seeds of ethnic tension.
Protesters blocking the entrance of a court in Yerevan on 20 May. (Knar Khudoyan / OC Media)
Protesters gathered outside courts across Armenia on Monday after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called for supporters to block the entrances, describing the courts as ‘puppets’ of the former government. [Read more…]
Gevorg Gorgisyan (Armlur.am)
Reflecting on the time since snap parliamentary elections last December in which the Bright Armenia Party took 18 seats, the secretary of the party’s parliamentary faction, Gevorg Gorgisyan, says their mission has been and remains to keep the ruling party in check and to make them deliver on the promises of the Velvet Revolution. [Read more…]
Ilham Aliyev (left) with Nikol Pashinyan at World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2019. (Still from official video)
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet officially this Friday. In Armenia, talk of progress in the peace process has largely focused on the inclusion of Nagorno-Karabakh in future negotiations. [Read more…]
