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.
Seven members of France’s parliament have drawn praise from Armenia and strong condemnation from Azerbaijan for their visit to Nagorno-Karabakh that ended on Friday.
The British government has appointed an ethnic Armenian diplomat as the United Kingdom’s new ambassador to Armenia.
A general of Nagorno-Karabakh’s armed forces led the operation on the suppression of post-election demonstrations in Armenia in 2008 and his group had expressed readiness to “shoot at people,” the BBC Russian Service writes in its August 7 article, citing Armenian investigators.
Armenia and Azerbaijan officially confirmed on Wednesday that their leaders will meet in Vienna on Friday for further talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The United States has praised Armenia for reforms in a number of areas, including the holding of elections “with respect for fundamental freedoms” and fighting “systemic government corruption.”
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh where he is to chair a meeting of Armenia’s Security Council planned for tomorrow, his press service said on Monday.
Armenia and Russia have reportedly signed fresh contracts for the supply of Russian weapons to the Armenian army.
The Washington-based rights group Freedom House praised the “velvet revolution” in Armenia and “markedly freer and fairer” elections which followed it, in an annual report on global democracy released on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday commended Armenia’s new authorities for holding general elections widely recognized as democratic and “reviving” a criminal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Yerevan.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a London-based think-tank, has acknowledged “substantial improvements” in Armenia in an annual report on the state of democracy around the world.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that he has apologized to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian for questioning Armenia’s role in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
A fugitive nephew of former President Serzh Sarkisian accused of illegal arms possession and drug trafficking faces extradition to Armenia after being arrested in the Czech Republic last week.
A representative of Armenia must run the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) until 2020, Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian insisted on Friday.
Armenia’s ambassador to Germany Ashot Smbatian has categorically denied any ties to local Armenian criminal groups after an investigation conducted by two leading German media made the allegation, citing classified police reports.
Official Baku has criticized Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian over his latest statement in Moscow concerning the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region disputed by Armenians and Azerbaijan.
Official Baku has sent a note of protest to the United States over the visit of American citizen Dan Bilzerian to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Ending their latest visit to Yerevan on Thursday, international mediators indicated their intention to organize a meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers soon.
The Armenian government praised Georgia and Russia on Friday for moving closer to opening new Russian-Georgian transport corridors that would facilitate cargo shipments to and from Armenia.
NATO has called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue negotiations on the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh problem and “avoid any new escalation” of the conflict.
Ahead of the Eastern Partnership Summit, which is to be held in Brussels next week, the European Parliament has called on the European Union bodies to launch a dialogue with Armenia on visa liberalization.
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