Tue Sep 25 2018
Yerevan Municipal Elections Were Not About Yerevan
By Nerses Kopalyan
Dr. Nerses Kopalyan writes that the municipal election was not about Yerevan, the Council of Elders, or the Mayor: it was about reifying Pashinyan’s dominance of the Armenian political universe.
Mon Jul 30 2018
Autocratic Arrogance: Kocharyan’s Arrest, His Apologists and Accountability
By Nerses Kopalyan
Nerses Kopalyan examines and debunks the arguments that the arrest and detention of Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharyan is politically motivated and that the basis of the arrest lacks cogent and substantive legal foundations. Kocharyan has been charged with “overthrowing constitutional order” regarding the events of March 1, 2008 that left ten people dead.
Thu May 24 2018
Time to Leave Emotions Aside
By Vahram Ter-Matevosyan
Following a series of extraordinary events in Armenia that has come to be coined as the “Velvet Revolution,” it is now time to put emotions aside and begin the process of evaluating those events objectively and by applying several academic disciplines, writes Vahram Ter-Matevosyan.
