Ara Tadevosyan - Mediamax.am

Ara Tadevosyan
Director of Mediamax

Tuesday 4 April 2023 15:38 Armenian speaker spits but the West says “it’s raining” Recently, along with several other media executives, I have been invited to an off-the-record meeting with the newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Kristina Kvien.

Wednesday 29 March 2023 15:47 The grave political consequences of sloppiness and short-sightedness I think the authorities of Armenia would give a lot today not to find themselves in the situation created after the Constitutional Court’s decision on March 24 that the obligations stipulated in the declaration on the retroactive recognition of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) comply with the basic law of Armenia.

Saturday 11 March 2023 09:05 De Waal and Mandelstam’s Tristia I think many of you have heard about Thomas de Waal. He is one of the few Western experts who is really informed about our region and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Recently, he has published "Armenia’s Year of Uncertainty” article, the excerpts from which we presented on our website.

Friday 10 February 2023 15:49 The 23 years, BBC Monitoring and Armenia-Wales football match Losing any subscriber (no matter how much they pay) is always painful. And although almost always the reason for canceling the subscription is not due to the quality of our services, but to internal issues of the subscriber, something bitter always remains. But when this week I received a letter from Sarah Poissonnier from BBC Monitoring, informing me that due to the budget and editorial policy changes, they are forced to cancel their subscription to Mediamax, I had no bitterness. Moreover, I was proud that we have been the provider of one of the most important news services in the world for 23 (!!!) years.

Monday 19 September 2022 15:52 Pelosi, Taiwan, Amulsar and Hatis During the visit of the Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi people often mentioned Taiwan where she visited recently.

Wednesday 25 May 2022 18:13 Pashinyan “incriminates” Charles Michel and takes us for idiots I do not like writing an article "hot on the trail”, the topic should "boil” vaporizing the emotions as much as possible. But after what Nikol Pashinyan said in the National Assembly on May 25 I can not restrain myself.

Friday 22 April 2022 09:25 “100 seconds” and our true friends On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 2015 Mediamax realized "100 seconds” project. The key message was that what happened in 1915 was not only a huge political and humanitarian catastrophe but a terrible chain of personal tragedies.

Wednesday 13 April 2022 18:06 Another “repentance” of the one who starts “from scratch” Speaking at the National Assembly on April 13, Nikol Pashinyan said that he "should be blamed not for handing over the lands, but for not doing it.”

Thursday 20 January 2022 14:59 “The world,” “the determining moment” and our same mistakes After 2020 war I keep on asking myself on different occasions, well, what else could be more terrible than this to shake ourselves and make fundamental changes in our perceptions? I asked myself this question again on January 19 when Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan commented on Aliyev’s statement that "the co-chairs should not deal with Nagorno Karabakh conflict since it has already been settled. We have settled this issue instead of them.”

Saturday 15 January 2022 09:49 “Tango” for three – Rubinyan, Kilic plus Rudenko The first meeting of the special envoys of Armenia and Turkey Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kilic took place in Moscow on January 14. Following the meeting, Armenian and Turkish foreign ministries issued same-content messages, describing the meeting as “positive and constructive.” It is clear that the text was prepared and agreed by the parties before the meeting, which indicates that despite the claims of the Pashinyan government, the Armenian-Turkish process unfolded still before the meeting of the special envoys.

Friday 1 October 2021 00:00 Global Matenadaran and Armenian “Finlandization” On August 15, 2020 – a month and a half before the war – Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing “unconditional support” to Greece and Cyprus and urging Turkey take steps to reduce the tension in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Wednesday 29 September 2021 00:00 “To Forget” Tigran the Great and Create Values I was 18 when we won the war in 1994. I have lived all my adult life as a citizen of a victorious country. Until November 10, 2020, when we woke up in another country. I think it is possible to draw certain parallels with the feelings our parents had when the Soviet Union collapsed: in 1991 my mother was younger than I am now.

Monday 27 September 2021 00:04 Strong and flexible economy should become our only ideology It happens that writing an article takes several months. Sometimes you must leave the topic to live in your head, to “boil” well and only then hand to reader’s judgment. On November 10, 2020 I decided to write a column and analyze the reasons of our defeat. But when pain, anger and bitterness are mixed, it is difficult to write cold-heartedly. So, it took me ten months to be able to formulate my thoughts. Over time, I realized that it would be difficult to fit everything in one text and decided to write a series of articles consisting of three parts.

Friday 6 November 2020 13:56 President Aliyev, tell me about “better life” Hello, President Aliyev.You might remember me. We met in Baku in June 2009. I was part of the delegation of Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives, who visited Stepanakert, Yerevan and Baku in one day at the initiative of the ambassadors of Armenia and Azerbaijan to Russia.

Wednesday 21 October 2020 13:23 Time was, NATO did not forgive Aliyev’s lies President of Armenia has traveled to Brussels, where he will meet Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg. This news has brought that a memory: a story that happened in the times, when NATO was more principled and bold.

Saturday 17 October 2020 14:14 Allies, interests, and the reality Since the very beginning of this war, we have been discussing who our allies and friends are, how they can help us, why they do not help or do but not as much as we would like. It is wartime and emotions run high, that is clear. Nevertheless, let’s try to look at the matters in a sober, cold manner. We need to see reality as it is and have no illusory expectations.

Tuesday 6 October 2020 13:14 We must impose a new agenda of the peace talks Today, on October 6, the 10th day of the unprecedented Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression against Artsakh, the frontline was relatively calm. Reports suggest that a meeting may take place between the representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan. And as the information flood has subsided a bit, I will try to consider the new negotiation agenda that Artsakh and Armenia must impose. Not for today’s negotiations that will deal exclusively with the consequences of the war, but for the main, as the mediators like to call them, "substantive” negotiations.

Tuesday 29 September 2020 12:23 You did your best to make us all diehards In the time of war, writing articles is an ungrateful job. A lot can change at the time of writing or immediately after publication.

Monday 28 September 2020 11:30 World, we will punish your “son of a bitch” After Ilham Aliyev was elected President of Azerbaijan in 2003, the first thing he did was finishing the job his father started – destroying what was left of the medieval Armenian cemetery and its masterpiece khachkars [cross-stones] in Nakhijevan. Aliyev then built a firing range in that place. His message to the world was that he would do whatever he wanted and not give a damn. And the world tolerated it.

Wednesday 25 March 2020 10:23 Freedom of speech and the “right” to spit in people’s faces I know this column will cause disapproval or surprise among many of my colleagues. Frankly speaking, I am not worried, because there are just a handful of real professionals left in the media and their opinions are the only ones I care to know.