“The South Caucasus is changing in multiple ways. Some of these changes are planned, others are more spontaneous”, said LINKS Director Dennis Sammut when answering questions put to him by the Azerbaijani news portal news.az.
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Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”
February 15, 2013 
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The European Policy Centre, a leading Brussels think-tank, has just published a policy brief prepared by LINKS Director, Dennis Sammut. Entitled “Democratisation, modernisation and globalisation – The EU and the hard tasks facing the three South Caucasus nations”, the paper looks at shortcomings that need to be addressed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia as they […]
Read more LINKS Director lectures at the Armenian Community centre in Sharjah “In moving forward Armenia must learn from history, but must not be a prisoner of history.”
December 22, 2012 0 Comments
LINKS Executive Director Dennis Sammut, on Friday, 21 December was the guest of the Armenian Community of Dubai and the Northern Emirates at an event held at the Armenian Community Centre in the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE). After touring the complex which includes a Church and a school, and meeting the spiritual head of the Community, […]
Read more “It is time to convene the Minsk Conference”.
December 11, 2012 0 Comments
It has been twenty years since the Minsk Group was established within the framework of the OSCE to mediate a resolution of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The group was supposed to prepare the way for the convening of a full conference in Minsk to help bring the conflict to a final resolution. But twenty years […]
Read more Images of Vandazor. Georgy Tovmasyan’s paintings and life remembered.
November 8, 2012 0 Comments
Menua Mkrtchyan helped set up the Georgy Tovmasyan Foundation to remember the work of his late grandfather. Tovmasyan, who died last April, was Mkrtchyan’s maternal grandfather. During his life Tovmasyan painted hundreds works of art, many of which depict Mkrtchyan’s hometown in Armenia, Vandazor. “The main purpose of the foundation is to remember him”, Mkrtchyan tells me, but the […]
Read more From Yerevan to Buckingham Palace. Interview with Sergey Smbatian, the young, workaholic Armenian, who set up the State Youth Orchestra.
June 22, 2012 0 Comments
He is young, talented and extremely focused. Sergey Smbatian has gone from leading the Armenian State Youth Orchestra to conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Buckingham Palace. Nicholas Maltby caught up with him and asked him about his music career and future plans. You are living in both London and Yerevan whilst you are with the Royal Academy. Do you […]
Read more IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ARAM KHACHATURIAN. Nicholas Maltby spoke to the young violinist Karen Shahgaldyan about Khachaturian and Armenian music.
June 8, 2012 0 Comments
This month marks the 109th birthday of the celebrated Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. One of the most exciting musical ensembles in Armenia today is the Khachaturian Trio, a collective named after the late Armenian maestro. The trio consists of three distinguished musicians: the violinist Karen Shahgaldyan, pianist Armine Grigoryan, and cellist Karen Kocharyan. Shahgaldyan is the only one […]
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