Heghine Buniatyan has been a senior editor with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service since June 2016. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan bureau, a broadcaster, and as the director of the Maxliberty Youth Program.
A senior Iranian official reportedly voiced strong support for Armenia’s territorial integrity when he commented on the continuing military standoff on its border with Azerbaijan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabakh and other regions in a phone call on Friday.
Russia hopes that political tensions in Armenia will not boil over in the run-up to snap parliamentary elections expected in June, a senior Russian diplomat said in an interview published on Friday.
The U.S. State Department has warned Armenia’s armed forces to stay out of politics but stopped short of calling their demands for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation a coup attempt.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian suggested on Wednesday that Russian peacekeeping forces will likely remain in Nagorno-Karabakh for more than five years envisaged by a Russian-brokered ceasefire that stopped the Armenian-Azerbaijani war on November 10.
Russia officially opened on Friday a center in Nagorno-Karabakh tasked with facilitating the return of the refugees and reconstruction of civilian infrastructure damaged during the recent war stopped by a Russian-brokered ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced serious concern about the ongoing war over Nagorno-Karabakh and what he called a growing involvement of “terrorists from the Middle East” in it when he spoke with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has criticized France and Russia for their “baseless” claims that Turkey recruited scores of Islamist fighters and deployed to them Azerbaijan for the war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed readiness on Monday to meet in Moscow for urgent talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to respect their latest ceasefire agreement and resume peace talks mediated by France, Russia and the United States.
Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed concern over the deployment of members of Middle Eastern “terrorist groups” to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
Iran reportedly threatened on Tuesday to take “tough measures” if Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continue to accidentally shell Iranian territory close to the scene of large-scale hostilities around Nagorno-Karabakh.
The United Nations Security Council called late on Tuesday for an immediate end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh and unconditional resumption of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has rejected allegations by one of the most influential figures in Russia’s state-run media that he has been undermining Russian-Armenian relations and supporting Western-funded groups hostile to Moscow.
Authorities in Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave said on Wednesday that they have detained an Armenian man who went missing one week ago.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has lambasted the U.S., Russian and French mediators trying to broker a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and said the most recent Armenian-Azerbaijani talks were fruitless.
Armenian soldiers will march in the upcoming Russian military parade in Moscow that will mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
The Armenian government took steps in 2019 to investigate and punish alleged abuses by former and current government officials and law enforcement authorities, according to an annual U.S. Department of State report on human rights practices.
The resolution passed by the United States House of Representatives to recognize World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide was a shameful step, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said while visiting Washington on November 13.
U.S. Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden has called for an official U.S. recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
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