The parents and other relatives of Armenian soldiers, who were taken prisoner by Azerbaijani forces in Artsakh in 2020, on Wednesday staged a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan. They demanded a meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kopirkin, but no one stepped out to talk to them. Afterwards, a scuffle erupted be...
Read full story Nikol Pashinyan “appropriated” a pen at the 31st sitting of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund being held in Yerevan. At the start of the meeting, he took a pen from the table, examined it and put it into the inner pocket of his jacket. The video below has been released by News.am. ...
Read full story The relatives of those killed and wounded in a fatal shooting in a village near the town of Aparan in Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province on Saturday staged a protest outside the Aparan police station, demanding a fair probe into the case. Two Aparan residents, Hmayak Mikaelyan and Tigran Harutyunyan, were killed and five others wer...
Read full story Armenian opposition members and supporters staged a protest outside the headquarters of Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party in Yerevan late on Monday, chanting “Armenia without Civil Contract!”. Opposition MPs accused the ruling party of inciting hatred and splitting the country. "The Civil Contract party has turned into t...
Read full story The peak of Mount Ararat – the place of the ceremony, the outfit – hiking clothes, you are invited to a wedding. This is how the young Armenian couple - Ishkhan Gevorgyan and Ashkhen Hovhannesyan, organized their wedding ceremony. They both like nature, hiking, climbing mountains, and this common preference became a reason to o...
Read full story The Parliament of Armenia convened a session today. 22 items are on agenda. The lawmakers will debate at second hearing the bills on making amendments to the Law on Prosecution, as well as a number of other laws. The Parliament will also debate the 2021 state budget performance annual report....
Read full story The National Security Service of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) has uncovered a high treason case involving a serviceman of the Defense Army. The man, identified only by his initials L.G., who is an Artsakh citizen, communicated with foreign intelligence services via social media and transferred classified military secrets to them...
Read full story Opposition leader and deputy parliament speaker Iskhan Saghatcelyan on Friday dismissed claims that the protest movement aimed at forcing Nikol Pashinyan and his cabinet to resign is dying down. “The Resistance Movement cannot die down under any circumstances, because the suspension or fading of the movement would mean a defea...
Read full story Delimitation and demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border must start only after Azerbaijan pulls out its forces from Armenian’s sovereign territory they occupied in May 2021, opposition leader and deputy parliament speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan told reporters in Yerevan’s France Square on Friday. He reiterated that a borde...
Read full story Russian peacekeepers view the situation in the village of Parukh (Farukh) in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as a priority, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference following talks with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Yerevan on Thursday. On March 24, the Azerbaijani troops entered the zone of resp...
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