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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  countries.  

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 Soviet Azerbaijan were the reaction of Azerbaijanis to the Artsakh Movement. “There is a wron...