http://www.panorama.am/ Armenian news and information portal. en-us editor@panorama.am webmaster@panorama.am PHP RSS Feed Generator While neighboring Azerbaijan aggressively stifled political opposition, Georgia and Armenia conducted parliamentary elections under new electoral laws that emphasized equal access to campaign resources and media coverage, the Freedom House ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/freedom-house-armenia-azerbaijan/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:34:00 GMT+4 Region Authorities in Azerbaijan should lift the travel ban imposed against journalist Mehman Huseynov and allow him to travel freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) said today. Authorities should drop ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/azerbaijan-huseynov/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:02:00 GMT+4 Region Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Monday Turkey could deploy elements of the armed forces to help quell anti-government protests if needed, after more than two weeks of violent ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/turkey/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:35:00 GMT+4 Region Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Karen Mirzoyan, who was on a visit to France from 10 to 12 June, gave an interview to France-24 TV channel. The ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/karen-mirzoyan/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:50:00 GMT+4 Region Here, we present an interview of Irdiplomacy.ir with Dr. Hermidas Bavand, a university professor. - What is your assessment of the 11th presidential election from a foreign policy perspective? - The 11th ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/rohani-us-policy/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:29:00 GMT+4 Region A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/18/turkey-protests/ Region Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:07:00 GMT+4 Region On 17 June Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received the delegation of the Republic of Armenia Court of Appeals headed by the chairman Arman Mkrtoumyan. Issues related to the cooperation between ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/17/margaryan-sahakyan/ Region Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:48:00 GMT+4 Region On 17 June President Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory address to the newly elected President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rohani. The address runs as follows: On behalf of the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/17/congrats-to-iran-pr/ Region Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:46:00 GMT+4 Region The Syrian conflict should be resolved by the participation of Syrian people, said during his first press conference IRI newly elected President Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian MEHR news agency reported. To ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/17/iran-rohani/ Region Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:37:00 GMT+4 Region Today in the early morning at 05:08 released a notice that on June 17 at 04:48am in the region of Azerbaijan Georgia borderline an earthquake with 3.5 magnitudes has ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/17/tavush/ Region Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:56:00 GMT+4 Region Moderate Iranian cleric Hassan Rohani looked to be heading towards an outright victory over his conservative rivals in the presidential election, initial results showed on Saturday, the Reuters reports. The vote ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/15/hassan-election/ Region Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:34:00 GMT+4 Region On 13 June Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited the village Vank in the Martakert region and met there philanthropist Levon Hayrapetyan. A number of projects related to the construction of ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/14/bako-sahakyan-hayrapetyan/ Region Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:36:00 GMT+4 Region Even my children do not know whom I have voted for, Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, stated, the Iranian Asriran.com reports. Iran's Supreme Leader has called on the citizens to go ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/14/iran-elections1/ Region Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:25:00 GMT+4 Region Millions of voters across Iran have begun casting their ballots in the country's presidential elections. Although all six candidates are seen as conservatives, one of them, cleric Hassan Rowhani, has been ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/14/iran-elections/ Region Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:30:00 GMT+4 Region Google reports it has stopped a series of attempts to hack the email accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/13/iran-hacks/ Region Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:55:00 GMT+4 Region Iran has had a positive effect on Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pak Ayeen has stated, the Iranian IRNA news agency reports. Iranian Ambassador has given an ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/13/ambassador/ Region Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:33:00 GMT+4 Region The Lebanese army has warned it will immediately respond to any future cross-border attacks by Syrian government forces after an attack on a border town in northern Lebanon, the Sky ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/13/lebanese-syria-warns/ Region Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:38:00 GMT+4 Region On 12 June President Bako Sahakyan met attendees of the second seminar courses organized for the Nagorno Karabagh Republic community heads in capital Stepanakert. The Head of the State stressed the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/12/bako/ Region Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:37:00 GMT+4 Region Friday's presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose supreme leader has ensured hardline candidates dominate the field. But the sole moderate could ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/12/iran-election/ Region Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:48:00 GMT+4 Region Since Azerbaijan achieved independence in 1991, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has dumped more than $55 million into programs to make the country more democratic. Meanwhile, the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/foreign-policy-azeri/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:25:00 GMT+4 Region In Baku, Azerbaijani customs officers confiscated a book from Shahin Rzayev, the director of the local office of Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), officially stating that it was ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/rzayev/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:51:00 GMT+4 Region Iranian presidential hopeful Gholam Ali Haddad Adel on Monday announced his withdrawal from the presidential race, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.  In his statement, Haddad Adel reminded that his prime ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/iran-elections/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:05:00 GMT+4 Region Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met Monday, June 10, with head of State Property Management Department at Armenian government Arman Sahakyan. Issues related to cooperation between the two Armenian states in ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/sahakyan/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:00 GMT+4 Region Saeed Jalili is committed to appointing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad his first deputy in case he wins the presidential elections, says an article published on Entekhab.ir website.  The article says that negotiations are ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/iran/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:25:00 GMT+4 Region On June 8, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met with Armenian Health Minister Derenik Dumanyan. Issues related to cooperation in the field of health between the two Armenian states were discussed ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/sahakyan-dumanyan/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:33:00 GMT+4 Region On June 8, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited construction site of a new republican hospital being built in the capital and got acquainted with the construction activities on site. The ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/10/nkr-president/ Region Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:24:00 GMT+4 Region Another cadet died in Azerbaijan of disease. According to the Azerbaijani news agency APA the incident was recorded in the Main Clinical Hospital of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. Javadzadeh Kanan ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/08/az-army/ Region Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:57:00 GMT+4 Region According to NKR Defense Army, Azerbaijan violated ceasefire regime at the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces about 250 times in the period between June 2 and ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/08/nkr-mil/ Region Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:31:00 GMT+4 Region By Garen Yegparian for the Armenian Weekly The parallels seem deliciously endless in number and category. A weeks worth of unrest in Turkey, spreading from Constantinople (Bolis) to other cities, could ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/08/garen-yegparian/ Region Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:39:00 GMT+4 Region On June 7, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met with students from NKR who won prizes and received certificates in the final stage of subject Olympiads among schoolchildren held in ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/nkr-meeting/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:48:00 GMT+4 Region On June 7, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met with Russian-Armenian philanthropist Edgar Aramyan. Issues related to the implementation of some projects in Artsakh were discussed during the meeting. President Sahakyan thanked ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/edgar-aramyan/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:38:00 GMT+4 Region More than 50 Azerbaijani political refugees living in Europe held a campaign in Brussels on June 6, organized by the Democratic Movement of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani information agency Turan ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/eu-az-rally/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:25:00 GMT+4 Region The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, expressed serious concern today at the promulgation by the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/mujjzhnieks/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:13:00 GMT+4 Region The Spokespersons of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, and tefan Fle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/european-union/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:52:00 GMT+4 Region On June 6, the World Bank presented a report on the health care condition in Europe and Central Asia. According to the report the medicine in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/az-health/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:29:00 GMT+4 Region On June 7, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan convened a meeting of NKR Security Council. Issues related to the organization of the 2013 crop harvest and elaboration of the Civil ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/sahakyan/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:47:00 GMT+4 Region Information about early withdrawal of Herbert Quelle, the German Ambassador to Azerbaijan, is not true, as ambassador to Azerbaijan continues working without any changes, Aytekin Magerramova, the press-secretary of the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/kvelle/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:37:00 GMT+4 Region Iranian Ambassador to Ankara Alireza Bigdeli announced that the Turkish officials have released an Iranian national who was arrested during recent unrests in Istanbul, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported. Turkish ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/iranian-national-released/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:33:00 GMT+4 Region Some Azerbaijani media make ungrounded comments in connection with the arrest of Iranian citizen Mikayil Kazimi, says a statement on the official website of the Iranian embassy in Baku. The Iranian ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/ambassador/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:00:00 GMT+4 Region Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for protests across the country to end immediately, BBC reported. At Istanbul airport he told crowds of supporters who were welcoming him home ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/07/turkey-unrest/ Region Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:05:00 GMT+4 Region Activists in Turkey have called for protestors to be released and police chiefs to be removed from office in a list of demands to the government after almost a week ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/06/taksim/ Region Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:52:00 GMT+4 Region This morning, dozens of residents of Bard city in Azerbaijan blocked Barda-Tartar highway. Protesters demand to determine those responsible for the death of their countryman in the army, Azerbaijani newspaper ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/06/azer-barda-army/ Region Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:01:00 GMT+4 Region On June 6, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/06/monitoring/ Region Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:33:00 GMT+4 Region Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to return to Turkey as mass protests against his government continue, BBC reported.  Mr Erdogan has completed a three-day tour of North Africa as demonstrators ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/06/turkey-protests/ Region Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:10:00 GMT+4 Region Former Interior Minister of Azerbaijan Iskender Hamidov, made a statement on the events that took place on June 4, in 1993. In an interview with Moderator.az he accused the Colonel ... http://www.panorama.am/en/region/2013/06/05/heydar-aliyev/ Region Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:49:00 GMT+4 Region