By: Gevorg Shahbazyan, Summer Intern, Armenian Assembly of America On Monday, June 16, the Jamestown Foundation held a conference entitled “Repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict on Moldova and the South Caucasus,” at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. The two panel conference featured several policy experts and former U.S. government officials, including Margarita Assenova, Director of Programs for the Balkans, Caucasus & Central Asia

Last week, Armenian Assembly Board Member Van Krikorian sat down with James Warlick, U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Minsk Group, responsible for overseeing the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the historically Armenian region of Nagorno Karabakah. #Karabakh #StateDepartment #OSCE #Azerbaijan #Artsakh #NagornoKarabakh #Armenian #Armenia

Aliyev, Azerbaijan & Axe Murders #Karabakh #IlhamAliyev #GurgenMargaryan #Azerbaijan #NATO #ArmenianAssemblyofAmerica #meme #NagornoKarabakh #axerbaijan #Armenian #Armenia #Hungary

Intern Class of 2013 Takes to Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) is proud to inform members, supporters and friends that, with the summer 2013 class, over 1,000 college students have completed the Assembly’s Terjenian-Thomas Summer Internship Program over the past 36 years. The 2013 intern class included Ani Acopian of Easton, Pennsylvania; Ariana Andonian of Rancho Santa Fe, California; Bobby Avakian of Bedford, Massachusetts; Sar

This Week in Washington, D.C. As we reported last week, the full attention of Congress this week has been on the looming government shutdown set to occur next Tuesday, October 1. Earlier this week the House passed a stop-gap spending bill that would keep the government open and operating for 45 days and that would defund the President’s healthcare law for FY14. Today, the Senate passed the House version, stripping the defunding language, thus setting up a showdown between the

WATCH: Azerbaijan Ambassador Attempts to Dispute Armenian Assembly of America’s Right to Submit Testimony to Congress. Learn more at www.armenian-assembly.org. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) #Karabakh #ArmenianAssembly #GurgenMargaryan #Azerbaijan #Congress #RamilSafarov #ArmenianAssemblyofAmerica #Julfa #Politics #Artsakh #DC #NagornoKarabakh #Nakhichevan #freedomofpress #Armenian #Armenia

200 violations in May, 200 violations in June, and 200 more last week. Azerbaijan Dictator Ilham Aliyev sure loves his sniper rifles and targeting Armenians, but will the world respond? #Karabakh #Azerbaijan #Artsakh #sniper #NagornoKarabakh #NagornoKarabakh #Armenia

Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Congratulate Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan on his country’s 22nd Anniversary of Independence. #Karabakh #Azerbaijan #Congress #Independence #democracy #Artsakh #FrankPallone #NagornoKarabakh #Freedom #Armenian #MichaelGrimm #Armenia

By: AAA Intern Hamlet Tamazian July 29, 2013 Turmoil has been ravaging the Middle East and South Caucasus for decades, and on July 16th, conferences were held on Capitol Hill regarding the situations in Azerbaijan and Syria. The issues related to Azerbaijan are two-fold. First, there is an unresolved conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the historically Armenian territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK). Second, Azerbaijani people are suffering from worsening conditions, a d