By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Special to the Mirror-Spectator On the eve of 2020, Armenia is facing political chaos: the executive power is eliminating all institutional components of an effective system[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Special to the Mirror-Spectator I have never described the events of April-May 2018 as a “revolution” for two reasons. The first is that Serzh Sargsyan gave[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Special to the Mirror-Spectator Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s decision to block access to the courts of the Republic of Armenia, using as an excuse the necessary[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Facing official commemorations of the Armenian Genocide on April 24, 2019 and new resolutions or political declarations of third-party countries (France, Italy, Portugal), Turkey adopted an[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan The first 100 days of Nikol Pashinyan’s government are puzzling as to the political realism of his government, on the one hand, and the existing global[...]

  By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan In the first place, the author wishes to pay tribute to the historians of the Armenian Genocide, from the pioneers to those who work today[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Recent news from Armenia is rather distressing. We witnessed the selection of a single candidate and his election as president of the Republic of Armenia by[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Observers were surprised when President Erdogan questioned the fair application of the Lausanne Treaty recently. In a visit to Athens in December, he asked for its[...]

By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan A recent column in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator (“Intolerance Toward ‘the Other’” by Raffi Bedrosyan) reported on a   shocking event that happened in Turkey during the inhumation[...]

The Armenian Case and European Judiciary: Beyond Statements By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Since the beginning of the 21st century, the judicial remedy for Armenian claims has become familiar and reparation[...]