ArmInfo.Los Angeles County Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger introduced two motions at the April 9 Board of Supervisors' meeting. The first one was to commemorate Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, The Armenian mirror spectator reports.
ArmInfo. The Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Belarus, Jeyhun Bayramov and Sergei Aleynik discussed the prospects for a mutually beneficial partnership between Azerbaijan and Belarus, as well as opportunities to do more together in the coming years, during a meeting in Minsk. Bayramov himself reported on his Twitter (X) page.
ArmInfo.Armenia's democracy score dropped from 3.11 points to 3.07 points. Thus, Armenia is ranked 35th on a 100-point system, The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. This is evidenced by the data of the annual Nations in Transit2024 report by the international human rights organization Freedom House.
ArmInfo.The issue of borders cannot be separated from people. It is precisely for the safe and secure life of a person, their rights. Former Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan writes.
ArmInfo. U.S.-based investigative journalist Jeremy Loffredo visited the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, where a community of Armenian Christians dating back to the 4th century face displacement at the hands of a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
ArmInfo. To counter the gains that authoritarians have made over the last 20 years, democratic governments must broaden their approach to democracy promotion.
ArmInfo.The Coordination Center "For Armenian Statehood" is going to appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia on suspicion of committing acts falling under the article on high treason by Armenian officials, reads a message received by ArmInfo from the chairman of the Democratic Union party Suren Petrosyan, who speaks on behalf of the coordination center.
ArmInfo. Former Artsakh Ombudsman, human rights activist Ruben Melikyan responded to the attempts of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to contrast "Historical Armenia" with the so-called "Real Armenia".
ArmInfo.The United States continues to work to collect facts in connection with what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh. The information received has not yet become a report, so there is nothing to report yet. US Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien stated this in an interview with the RFE/RL's Armenian Service when asked to tell whether the fact-finding report on Artsakh, which the State Department promised to prepare, is ready.
ArmInfo. U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien twice avoided answering a direct question about whether the US will impose sanctions or other international coercive measures against Azerbaijan due to belligerent rhetoric towards Armenia.