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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 25, ARMENPRESS. In 2019 major change in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is less probable, expert on Azerbaijani studies Taron Hovhannisyan told a press conference in ARMENPRESS, adding that the leadership in Armenia is new, and the process on examining the negotiation process is still underway.

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24, ARMENPRESS. The fact of the large scale massacres of Armenians in 1988 committed by Azerbaijani authorities in Sumgait, Azerbaijan must be shifted to the international legislative arena, sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, director of the Sociometer Sociological Center said at a press conference.

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS.  27 years ago the Defense Ministry Units of Azerbaijan along with the units of the Internal Affairs Ministry and the OMON forces (Special Purpose Police Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan) committed one of the cruelest and inhumane crimes of our time in Maragha village, Martakert, located in the north-east of NKR. On April 10, 1992, they invaded Maragha and within a few hours, destroyed and burned the village down by razing everything ...

YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS. Professor Yoav Loeff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who teaches Armenian history and culture at the University, recently published a detailed analysis in The Jerusalem Post, denying the fake claims of an anti-Armenian article published recently in the same newspaper obviously by the order of Azerbaijan.

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. Due to the Soviet Union’s policy of divide and rule, the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. unleashed devastating wars over disputed territories. The longest running territorial dispute in the post-Soviet space has been over Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR or Artsakh) between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This conflict is unique because it is not a proxy war between Russia and the West, and it's fascinating considering America’s postu...

YEREVAN, MARECH 29, ARMENPRESS. The article of famous Lithuanian historian Algis Kasperavičius headlined “Why call it genocide, when it is not one?” was published in http://www.bernardinai.lt news website . ARMENPRESS reports the author refers to the false claims of Azerbaijanis about the so-called “Khojaly genocide”, as well as the genocidal policy against Armenians in Azerbaijan and the lobbyist activities of Azerbaijanis in Lithuania and other &nbs...

On November 21, speaking in Sumgait on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the city, Ilham Aliyev recalled what happened there at the end of February of 1988, as a result of which the name of the city became synonym and went down in history as a symbol of misanthropy and genocide. Only Aliyev’s “gesture” was far from feeling remorse for the crimes committed by his country.

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Head of the Institute of National Strategic Studies of the Defense Ministry of Armenia, Advisor to the Minister of Defense, Major-General Hayk Kotanjyan has presented a report at a workshop on the topic of "South Caucasus – New Challenges". It was organized by the Association of Graduates of the Center named after J. Marshall, European Center for Security Studies and US embassy to Armenia, Armenpress reports. The report runs as following:

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. On December 10, 1991, by the freely expressed will of the residents of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was secured by a referendum.

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 13, ARMENPRESS. Former Ombudsman of Armenia, Chairperson of “Against Legal Arbitrariness” NGO Larisa Alaverdyan documents that the Artsakh (Karabakh) Movement was the consequence of the unbearable oppressions that Armenians in Artsakh and Soviet Azerbaijan were subjected to.  Larisa Alaverdyan told the reporters at the media hall of ARMENPRESS news agency that there is misperception that the persecutions and hostile attitude towards Armenians in Sov...