It was bad enough that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had failed to keep their campaign pledge to reaffirm the facts of the Armenian Genocide. They sunk to a new low last week, when Clinton announced that she and the president opposed adoption of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the full House, following its passage by the Foreign Affairs Committee.

When ...]]>Nagorno Karabakhhttp://test.azg.am/EN/2010031102Embassy Magazine famous Canadian newspaper published an article titled, "Azerbaijan Continues Looking for Scapegoats in the Khojalu Fiasco".

"Karabakh, heart of Armenia, was inexplicably snatched from Armenia in a sinister stroke of the pen by Joseph Stalin and placed under the jurisdiction of Soviet Azerbaijan as an "autonomous province": a game of political expediency by the newly established Soviet authorities in the...]]>Diasporahttp://test.azg.am/EN/2010031103Edward and Mary Ann Kazanjian of Belmont will present an illustrated talk entitled "A Journey To Historic Armenia: There Is Something There," on Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.

In June 2009, the Kazanjians traveled with a group of Armenians from the U.S.A., Cyprus, and Austria, led by veteran tour guide Armen Aroyan ...]]>Human rights; Freedom of speechhttp://test.azg.am/EN/2010031104The number of journalists in jail rose in February as a relentless media crackdown continues in Iran. Authorities are now holding at least 52 journalists in prison, a third of all those in jail around the world, according to the latest monthly survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

"Iran is entering a state of permanent media repression, a situation that is not only appalling but also untenable," said CPJ Executive Directo...]]>Human rights; Freedom of speechhttp://test.azg.am/EN/2010031105An English artist whose work was found to have mocked Turkey's prime minister has been handed a fine in place of a jail term, BBC reports

Michael Dickinson, 59, originally from County Durham, created "Good Boy" which showed Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a dog with a US flag as his lead.

He was cleared of a charge of mockery in 2008 but this was later overturned.

A judge in I...]]>