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Hayatsk Yerevanits
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journal of news and views, analysis and comment, culture and public policy
The Armenian Center for National and
International Studies, a leading independent strategic research center
in Yerevan, is the institutional initiative of Raffi K. Hovannisian,
Armenia’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs. The institute focuses in its
research on a comprehensive agenda of foreign and public policy
issues, which are articulated analytically in political and academic arenas
around the world.
Yerevan—The Youth School Program of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) today ended the three-month series of seminar-courses, which commenced on September 16. The final lecture, entitled “Diaspora, Statehood and National Identity,” was delivered by political scientist Armen Grigoryan. [Full story]
Yerevan—The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) today held the penultimate session of the Youth school program. The guest speaker was law expert Andrias Ghukasyan, who made a presentation on “The Legal Basis of the Karabakh Issue.” [Full story]
ACNIS Concludes the 2011 Activities
with the New Yearbook
Yerevan—The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) today released the new ACNIS annual yearbook publication, entitled “South Caucasus after 2008” during a special reception held at the Center’s office. The event was attended by representatives from the diplomatic community in Yerevan, members of the Armenian parliament, experts, analysts, and members of the press. [Full story]
Raffi Hovannisian Speaks at the
American University of Armenia
Yerevan—At the invitation of Dr. Armen Mazmanian, founding director of ACNIS Raffi K. Hovannisian yesterday addressed the open seminar, entitled “Rethinking the G-Word” as part of the “Rethinking Values, Norms, and Institutions in Armenia” series held at the American University of Armenia Law Department. [Full story]
Hovannisian’s Family of Shadows released in paperback, translated into Armenian
New York—The publishing house HarperCollins has announced the paperback release of Garin K. Hovannisian’s Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream, the dramatic history of the Hovannisian family: Kaspar—the survivor of genocide and soldier of General Antranig; Richard—the historian and pioneer of Armenian Studies; and Raffi—the repatriate citizen and first foreign minister of independent Armenia. [Full story]
National Public Opinion Service
A series of public and expert opinion polls helping to promote among decisionmaker and citizen alike a new civic culture and societal consensus-building in Armenia.
