<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Azerbaijan on Armenian News Network - Groong</title><link>https://ann.org/tags/azerbaijan/</link><description>Recent content in Azerbaijan on Armenian News Network - Groong</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.128.0</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ann.org/tags/azerbaijan/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Armenian-Turkish War</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20201010.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20201010.html</guid><description>Summary
While the American mainstream media was busy discussing the fly on Mike Pence&amp;rsquo;s head during Vice Presidential Debate, the Armenian-Turkish conflict entered the second week of violence across the entire line of contact (LoC) between the Republic of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, and many regional and extra-regional powers took a neutral to stand and watch attentively from the sidelines. An attempt by Azerbaijani-Turkish and ISIS-linked formations to encircle Artsakh by taking over its strategic communication highways with the Republic of Armenia while carrying out devastating blows against Artsakh&amp;rsquo;s Defense Army in a new and enhanced blitzkrieg strategy has failed dramatically.</description></item><item><title>Campaign 2012: A Look Through The Armenian-American Lens</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20120108.html</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20120108.html</guid><description>We are now less than a year away from the 2012 elections and the campaign trail is already heating up. The race for the white house has catapulted various GOP candidates to the top of the mountain, only to see them tumble from its peak. So far we have seen some historic debate gaffes, incredibly bold policy proposals and unorthodox candidates try to distinguish themselves from each other, all in an effort to be the anti-Romney; the presumptive GOP nominee.</description></item><item><title>Armenia's Stand: Justice At Home, Justice Abroad</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20100406.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20100406.html</guid><description>YEREVAN, ARMENIA
We are at the brink of a pair of wars, civil and regional, and it is better to speak now.
Armenia, that ancient civilization deprived by the tragedies of yore of its capacity for contemporary statecraft, needs immediately to put its house in democratic order. Finally responsible for its own record, it also has legitimate expectations of the international partnership.
In this global and so contracted century of ours, where resources and rights often compete for precedence, domestic demeanor and foreign affairs form part of one and the same policy agenda.</description></item><item><title>Nothing Personal: Turkey's Top Ten</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20090306.html</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20090306.html</guid><description>YEREVAN, ARMENIA
That an Armenian repatriate, American-born into a legacy of remembrance inherited from a line of survivors of genocide nearly a century ago, feels compelled to entitle his thoughts with a focus on Turkey&amp;ndash; and not Armenia&amp;ndash; reveals a larger problem, a gaping wound, and an imperative for closure long overdue on both sides of history&amp;rsquo;s tragic divide.
The new Armenia, independent of its longstanding statelessness since 1991, is my everyday life, as are the yearnings of my fellow citizens for their daily dignity, true democracy, the rule of law, and an empowering end to sham elections and the corruption, arrogance and unaccountability of power.</description></item><item><title>Roots of Democratic Deficiency</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20030313.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-20030313.html</guid><description>Abstract
The current post-Soviet bureaucracy in South Caucasian republics, and notably in ethnically diverse Azerbaijan and Georgia, has yet been unable to link ethnicity, territory, and political administration in the process of state-building and democratic development. Bureaucratic evolution from communism to liberalism has simply contributed to the establishment of a handy &amp;ldquo;electoral democracy&amp;rdquo; and lucrative economic liberalism for the elites.
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, particularistic identities, reinforced differences, and fragmentation of societies have been the dominant characteristics of the South Caucasian republics of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan (or Trans-Caucasus).</description></item><item><title>Politics of Transition in Armenia and Prospects of a Peace Deal with Azerbaijan</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-lzourabian-20000429.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-lzourabian-20000429.html</guid><description>Yerevan, Armenia
On October 27th, 1999 five gunmen broke into the chamber of the National Assembly of Armenia during the weekly session of parliamentary inquiries addressed to the Government and opened fire. Within seconds they had killed the Prime Minister of Armenia as well as the Chairman of the Parliament, his two deputies and 4 other members of the Parliament and the Government, whose nearly total membership was present at the session.</description></item><item><title>Armenia's Foreign Relations</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19971006.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19971006.html</guid><description>EVENT: Senior presidential adviser Jirair (Gerard) Libaridian resigned.
SIGNIFICANCE: Libaridian&amp;rsquo;s departure comes at a time when Armenia has been mounting a relatively successful effort to build its international ties.
ANALYSIS: On September 15, Jirair Libaridian announced that President Levon Ter-Petrosian had accepted his resignation as a senior foreign policy advisor, on purely personal grounds. Libaridian has been a key architect of Armenian foreign policy since independence, playing a central role in negotiations over Nagorno Karabakh and in warming relations with Turkey.</description></item><item><title>Conflict Mythology and Azerbaijan</title><link>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19970917.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ann.org/ro/ro-19970917.html</guid><description>Almost every day now media outlets report on the continuous multinational effort to forge out a final peace settlement in the nine year-old conflict between the government of Azerbaijan and the people of the de- facto independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic-Artsakh. Their reports generally contain a brief on a recent round of talks, where parties would once again reiterate their incompatible positions, with mediators privately promising a diplomatic breakthrough soon.
Over the years such reports have become enveloped in the usual repetition of grim statistics: tallies numbering the dead and refugees, and areas occupied.</description></item></channel></rss>