Onnik Krikorian in Armenia: February 2009 Archives

Residents of Yerevan will for the first time vote to elect a Mayor in May. Fearful that an elected Mayor would rival the power of the presidency, the municipal head had previously been officially appointed until the constitution was amended......more

Having narrowly escaped sanctions from the Council of Europe, and following controversy surrounding the trial of seven senior opposition figures arrested after last year's post-election violence, come two damning reports on the human rights and political situation in Armenia.......more

    To be honest, I hadn’t particularly planned on attending today’s demonstration staged outside the Georgian Embassy in Yerevan to protest the detention of two ethnic Armenian activists in Georgia’s Samtskhe Javakheti region – or rather, I was......more

Following the arrest of two ethnic Armenians in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of the Republic of Georgia, nationalist groups in Armenia plan to hold a demonstration outside the Georgian Embassy in Yerevan on Wednesday. While it is unlikely to be well......more

Campaign promises should always be taken with a pinch of salt, perhaps, but the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States has many in Turkey concerned. In particular, Obama's promise to recognize the massacre and......more

Global Voices Online, a site started at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society with the support of Reuters and for which I'm the Caucasus Regional Editor, was this month honored with the Anvil of Freedom award from......more

Although Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official State religion in 301 AD, and despite the role the Armenian Apostolic Church has taken upon itself in terms of shaping national identity, it had not been......more

Murders and assassinations are nothing new or surprising here although it's been some time since we've had one as high profile as tonight. In what sounds like a contract hit, the deputy head of police was shot three times in the......more