CivilNet host and analyst Eric Hacopian discusses the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the global economy, as well as the ways in which Ukraine is winning the public relations war. Eric also talks about the various reactions within the Armenian community.
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CivilNet Joins Meta’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Program in Armenia
CivilNet became the first Armenian news organization Tuesday to join Meta’s third-party fact-checking program in Armenia. CivilNet, whose fact-checking department has been certified by the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network, will employ native Armenian language fact-checkers to review and rate the accuracy of content in Armenia. “CivilNet established a dedicated fact-checking unit in December 2021 to advance fact-checking journalism in Armenia. Our mission is to combat fake news, misinformation, and manipulation while educating the public about these issues. We are glad to start our fact-checking work on Facebook and Instagram, which remain key social media platforms in Armenia,” said Apo Boghigian, […]
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Advocates welcome landmark overhaul of Armenia’s domestic violence law
By Paul Vartan Sookiasian An overhauled version of Armenia’s domestic violence law went into effect Monday, a landmark move that the bill’s author and women’s rights advocates told CivilNet represents a crucial step toward combating gender-based violence in the country. As a result, advocates told CivilNet, many more people experiencing domestic violence in Armenia will have protection under the law and gain access to sorely needed resources. It marks the first time any significant changes have been made to Armenian domestic violence legislation since the original law was passed in 2017. The new package of amendments is the product of […]
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Freedom House deems Baku’s actions in Karabakh ethnic cleansing, urges
By Sonya Dymova In a landmark special report released Monday, Freedom House finds Azerbaijan’s actions in and around Nagorno-Karabakh since the 2020 war amount to ethnic cleansing and urged the International Criminal Court to study those violations. “The documented actions of Azerbaijan meet the criteria for ethnic cleansing as understood in the context of the former Yugoslavia conflict,” Freedom House concludes in the report titled “Why are there no Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh?” To that end, the U.S.-based watchdog also concludes Azerbaijan’s actions qualify as crimes against humanity and war crimes under the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International […]
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Armenia’s Amulsar gold mine may begin operations next year
By Mark Dovich Operations at Amulsar, Armenia’s long-stalled gold mining project, can begin as soon as next spring, a senior Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) official suggested Thursday, in a rare public indication of a timeline for a project embroiled for years in environmental and political controversy. A number of outstanding issues must still be resolved before production can begin, Senior Managing Director Denis Ilin told the ArmInfo news site, most importantly an EDB-led environmental impact assessment. Ilin told ArmInfo last May that the EDB’s decision to extend a multimillion loan to allow the Amulsar project to go ahead will hinge […]
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Armenian government stares down historic $1.2B lawsuit over Zangezur mine
By Mark Dovich Walnort Finance, a Cyprus-registered shell company that owns a 12.5% stake in the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine, Armenia’s biggest mine, filed a $1.2 billion arbitration claim against the Armenian government last Friday — the biggest lawsuit the government has ever faced. In a filing with the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, D.C., Walnort alleges that the Armenian government undertook a “politically motivated campaign” to deprive it of its “legitimate shareholder rights” and claims that it only brought the issue to arbitration after the government rebuffed repeated attempts to negotiate. The compensatory damages […]
