Nagorno Karabakh

Traveling To Karabakh Is An Elusive Prize For Many Visitors

May 9, 2013 Featured News
The Artsakh Army marching band (Photo by Matthew Karanian)

Matthew Karanian - 9/5/13 EDITOR’S NOTE: For a second time, Asbarez is teaming up with travelogue Matthew Karanian to present a travel special to serve as a guide for its readers who are planning a trip to Armenia and Karabakh. Matthew Karanian is the author of ARMENIA AND KARABAKH: THE STONE GARDEN TRAVEL GUIDE, which was [...]

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Georgian Patriarch denies controversial Karabakh comment

January 9, 2013 Featured News
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Karabakh – 9/1/2013 H H Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, has denied making a controversial comment on the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh during a recent meeting with a top Moslem cleric in the Caucasus. A Georgian Patriarchate spokesman said earlier this week that Azeri [...]

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Armenian Americans demand Azeri axe-murderer’s re-incarceration

September 11, 2012 News

10/9/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian Americans from throughout the Greater Washington DC area called Hungary’s release and Azerbaijan’s pardon and glorification of convicted axe-murderer Ramil Safarov a travesty of justice and pressed for the killer’s immediate re-incarceration, at a demonstration held in front of the Hungarian Embassy. “Hungary’s extradition of an unrepentant axe-murderer to Azerbaijan, where [...]

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Slovakian clergymen to visit Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh

February 15, 2012 News

14/2/2012 YEREVAN.- The representative of Slovakian clergy will visit Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, leader of Armenian community of Slovakia Ashot Grigoryan said at a Tuesday press conference. According to him, the delegation will arrive in Armenia on February 28 to hold meetings with Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II. After a two-day visit to Armenia, the [...]

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Azerbaijani ambassador: Armenians try to represent Karabakh conflict as religious to Europe

February 3, 2012 News

Trend E.Tariverdiyeva 2/2/2012 Russia has recently proved that it wants the OSCE Minsk group to promote the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, the Azerbaijani ambassador to Italy Vagif Sadikhov said in an interview with the Italian Limes newspaper. “Russian presidents have organised over 10 meetings between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents over the years. [...]

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Inter-religious dialogue around Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

December 10, 2011 Featured News

ZAUR SHIRIYEV z.shiriyev@todayszaman.com 9/12/2011 International media have a long history of presenting political events in terms of their religious context. Reports on the recent Egyptian elections, for example, cast the election results as an “Islamist win”; political commentary was shaped by the parties’ religious backgrounds. Similar tendencies were seen in the Caucasus during the 1990s, [...]

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Azerbaijan against separatist churches in occupied Territories

July 8, 2010 News

Azerbaijan, Baku, Trend T. Jafarov / Supporting the construction of churches in Azerbaijan’s occupied territories is equivalent to backing Armenian separatism, Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Religious Associations Hidayat Orujov told media today. The Holy Virgin Protection Russian Orthodox Church is currently being built in Nagorno Karabakh. Orujev added that it is illegal to [...]

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Armenian President meets Orthodox Assembly Reps

July 1, 2010 News

1/7/2010 On July 1, RA President Serzh Sargsyan met with the participants of the 17th conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy. Serzh Sargsyan considers it symbolic that the annual conference of the Assembly is being held in Armenia, one of the cradles of Christianity and civilization, the RA presidential press service informed NEWS.am. Pointing [...]

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participation of Bishop Alexander of Baku and Caspian Region

June 19, 2010 News

Russian media spreads information on participation of Bishop Alexander of Baku and Caspian region in groundbreaking ceremony of the church in the occupied territory of Azerbaijan – UPDATED 19/6/2010 Bishop refutes it himself Baku – APA. A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Russian Orthodox Church which would be built in honor of Saint Mary in [...]

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Armenia Marks Republic Day

May 31, 2010 News

28.05.2010 Ruzanna Stepanian Armenians marked on Friday the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of their first short-lived independent republic that emerged from the ashes of the Russian Empire at the end of World War I. The main ceremonies marking the public holiday in Armenia again took place in Sardarapat, a village 40 kilometers west of [...]

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