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March 8, A Day of Atonement of Sins. Women Treated Like Patients: Opinion
In Armenia, International Women's Day on March 8 has become a "feeling of guilt" day: through flowers and gifts, it seems, women are...Read More »
Film Depicting Armenians in ‘Positive Light’ Screened During Azerbaijan’s Cinema Week
Eldar Guliyev's feature film "Hostage" (2005), which depicts a personal story during the Nagorno-Karabakh war, was screened at the...Read More »
‘Tweets from Tahrir’ to be Published in the US
A US publisher plans to come out with a book next month featuring a collection of Twitter messages sent during the protests in...Read More »
Women’s Rights in Armenia are Clearly Being Violated: MP
If police are able to apply force to women standing on the street (meaning protestors, demonstrators), then it becomes obvious...Read More »
Azerbaijani Activists Under Pressure Ahead of March 11 Day of Protest
Youth activists in Azerbaijan say they are coming under pressure over a Facebook campaign calling for a day of anti-government...Read More »
Turkish Court Jails 2 Journalists
The journalists, Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik, were arrested after testifying for more than 14 hours about what the authorities said...Read More »
Saakashvili is America’s ‘Son of a Bitch’: Lukashenko
In a three-hour interview with Washington Post senior associate editor Lally Weymouth last week, Belarusian President Alexander...Read More »
Film Depicting Armenians in ‘Positive Light’ Banned in Azerbaijan
Asked why his films "Scream" and "Memory" reveal the "atrocities of Armenians, while 'Hostage' attempts to somewhat smooth the... Read More »
‘Male Society’ and ‘Feminist Things’: Debate Ahead of International Women’s Day
The meaning of the struggle for women's rights has been removed from the contents of the March 8 (International Women's Day) "holiday."Read More »
Iran’s First Female Astronomer Alenoush Terian Passed Away
On Mar. 4, Iran’s first female astronomer Alenoush Terian passed away at the age of 90. The Iranian-Armenian scientist was...Read More »