Gold dealer implicates Turkey’s president in corruption scheme
By DEVLIN BARRETT and ERIN CUNNINGHAM* The Washington Post A Turkish gold trader testified Thursday that he was told his scheme to move billions of [more >>>]
Month: November 2017
Scottish Scientist Stephen Sim Describing His Trip to Nakhichevan
By VIGEN AVETISYAN Art-A-Tsolum Scottish scientist Stephen Sim described the unpleasant experience of his visit to Nakhichevan, the historical Armenian territory now occupied by Azerbaijan. [more >>>]
Georgia’s Zig-Zag Progress
CIVIL GEORGIA Civil Georgia interviewed Thomas de Waal, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, Brussels-based think tank on European foreign policy analysis. In your mind what [more >>>]
Politics, corruption, and abuse in Armenia’s supermarket cartels
By DAVID STEPANYAN OC Media With murky boundaries between the authorities and big supermarket chains in Armenia, their government linked owners enjoy a degree of [more >>>]
Europe’s murky Eastern energy deals
By MARIANA KOCHLADZE, CEE BANKWATCH Euractiv Millions of euros in public money are being invested in large infrastructure projects in the EU’s eastern neighbours in [more >>>]
A village divided by the Kars Treaty
By NATIA TAVDIRIDZE JAMnews Signed nearly 100 years ago, the Treaty of Kars separated brothers, sisters, parents and children, as they found themselves on different [more >>>]
Lavrov Not ‘Too Optimistic’ Over Settlement Of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
RFE/RL Armenian Service During a visit to Armenia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said there is no cause for “too much optimism” over a [more >>>]
Armenian Dissident Goes On Hunger Strike In Push For Constitutional Reform
By SISAK GABRIELIAN RFE/RL Prominent Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikian, who currently heads an Armenian political group, has gone on a hunger strike over what he [more >>>]
Opinion | Armenian Georgians working in Russia impedes their integration
By RIMA GHARIBYAN OC Media Southern Georgia’s Armenians are not well integrated. That men spend nine months of the year in Russia is a problem — it [more >>>]
Georgian Justice Ministry Says Not Involved In Deporting Saakashvili’s People From Ukraine
RFE/RL Georgian Service TBILISI — Georgian Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani says her ministry was not involved in the recent deportation of eight Georgian nationals from [more >>>]