(The Independent)–Fears that Azerbaijan has systematically destroyed hundreds of 500 year old Christian artifacts have exploded into a diplomatic row–after members of European Parliament were barred from inspecting an ancient Armenian burial site.
The predominantly Muslim country’s government has been accused of "flagrant vandalism" similar to the Taliban’s demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan.
The claims [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress/RFE/RL)–An emergency parliament session convened Wednesday to elect a new Parliament Speaker and heads of two committees–vacated following the resignation of former Parliament Speaker Arthur Baghdasarian and the pullout of his Orinats Yerkir party from the governing coalition–decided to put off the elections until June 1.
Deputy Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosian–widely expected to replace Baghdasarian–said [...]

(PanArmenian)–Secret talks between Turkey and Armenia–launched after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote a letter to Armenian President Robert Kocharian–have failed to make any headway coming out of their third round.
A part of the third session of secret talks was held on the sidelines of the Turkey-European Union meeting in Vienna–Austria last March.
The Turkish [...]

(AFP)–A Russian man of Armenian origin has been stabbed to death by a group of young people on a train in a Moscow suburb–Moscow Echo radio quoted a lawyer as saying Tuesday.
Simon Tsaturian–who represents the family of another ethnic Armenian killed in Moscow last month–said the stabbing of Artur Sardarian–19–took place on May 25 and [...]

(Combined Sources)–A spokesman for President Robert Kocharian said that the Armenian leader and his Azeri counterpart–Ilham Aliyev–will meet on the sidelines of a summit of Black Sea nations which is scheduled to take place in Romania’s capital Bucharest on June 5.
The French–Russian–and American mediators have expressed hopes for advancemen’s in Karabagh conflict settlement following talks [...]

ANKARA (UPI)–Azeri oil began flowing through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline and reached Ceyhan–Turkey–over the weekend.
Oil reached the Turkish Mediterranean port on Saturday–according to the Azertag news agency Sunday.
The BTC pipeline is designed to take Azeri and Kazakh oil through Georgia and Turkey to international markets.
The $4 billion–1,000 mile pipeline is aimed at reducing Western [...]

WASHINGTON–DC–The controversy surrounded the firing of US Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans continued to grow this week with a powerful statement by the Co-chairman of the Armenian Caucus–calls for Congressional hearings–and a series of as yet unanswered inquiries from the national media during the State Department’s daily press briefing–reported the Armenian National Committee of [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL/Yerkir)–Armenia’said on Tuesday that Azerbaijan has prevented it from participating in this week’s meeting in Baku of high-ranking defense officials from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
The one-day session of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers is scheduled to open in the Azeri capital on Wednesday. Yerevan said last week that Defense Minister Serge [...]

At the official initiation ceremony Saturday–twenty-one youths joined the ran’s of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) by taking an oath. The new members took their oath at the Homenetmen Ararat Center in Glendale in front of about 100 ARF members.
The "Gnkahayr" of the ceremony was Professor Rubina Peroomian–who led the oath-taking ceremony and initiated the [...]

YEREVAN (Yerkir/Armenpress)–Armenian President Robert Kocharian–Prime Minister Andranik Margarian–Catholicos Karekin II–Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian–and other officials and diplomats visited the Sardarabad memorial on May 28 to pay tribute to the soldiers who were killed during the famous battle for independence. The event also marked the 88th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Republic.
Kocharian took the [...]

The Christian Union party of The Netherlands will introduce a bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide and other crimes against humanity to the Dutch Parliament during a press conference on Thursday–June 1. The bill specifically refers to the Armenian genocide as one of the crimes against humanity covered by the law.
Christian Union parliamentarians Tineke [...]