By Vicken Aprahamian and Lori Manoukian Special to the Mirror-Spectator Setting the Stage Armenia’s involvement with mining dates back thousands of years. By 5000 B.C., the region’s inhabitants had discovered[...]

Next month, dozens of heads of state, hundreds of diplomats, and thousands of activists will gather in Baku, Azerbaijan for the 29th annual UN climate change conference. The UN rotates[...]

Speaking at Italy’s Cernobbio Forum on September 6, 2024, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev justified Azerbaijan’s conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh. “We fully restored our sovereignty last year, and separatism was eliminated from[...]

In an article for the Mirror-Spectator published in July, I argued that Armenia’s absence from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit is a strategic error by its government. Also, in that[...]

Just over a century ago, Turkey and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Moscow. The agreement fixed the border and formalized relations between the two countries. Shortly after, the[...]

In the past two months the US national conventions for both the Republican and Democratic Parties took place. The Republican Party held its national convention between July 15 and 18 in Milwaukee,[...]

By Nadav Tamir Jerusalem’s special status as one of the world’s cultural centers and an attractive tourist destination stems from it being the cradle of three monotheistic religions. It is[...]

On August 18-19, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Azerbaijan for two days, coinciding with ongoing battles in the Kursk region of Russia after the Ukrainian army invaded Russia. The official Kremlin[...]

The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and the onset of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022 have dramatically disrupted the status quo in the South Caucasus, thrusting the region into the center[...]

The following column was released by the organization Reporters without Borders (RSF, its French acronym), on its website, rsf.org. Five journalists killed, 131 imprisoned, 77 convicted of “insulting the president”[...]