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.
The final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit, which is due to be held in Brussels next week, has again reached a deadlock because of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. While the rest of the document is fully agreed, official Yerevan and Baku have yet to come to terms on the conflict-related wording, RFE/RL correspondent Rikard Jozwiak reports from Brussels.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has complained that his Geneva-based office has been unable to send fact-finding missions to Nagorno-Karabakh so far.
A visiting senior U.S. official met with Armenian government representatives and businesspeople in Yerevan on Wednesday to advise them on ways of capitalizing on Armenia’s mostly tariff-free access to the U.S. market.
Representatives of the Armenian opposition have accused the government of ignoring their opinions in drafting key legislation ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections that will be held in conditions of the amended Constitution.
An anti-graft arm of the Council of Europe urged the Armenian authorities on Thursday to carry out “more comprehensive” reforms that would combat and prevent corruption among Armenian lawmakers, judges and prosecutors.
Former President Robert Kocharian has again not ruled out the possibility of his return to active politics, while insisting that he has still not decided whether to come out of political retirement.
Ruben Hayrapetian, a controversial government-linked businessman heading the Football Federation of Armenia (FFA), will not be prosecuted despite admitting beating up another entrepreneur, law-enforcement authorities in Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Thursday denounced Turkey’s furious reaction to the European Parliament’s latest calls for an official Turkish recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday again claimed to be having second thoughts about turning Armenia into a parliamentary republic as part of a constitutional reform initiated by him.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday voiced fresh concerns about large-scale deliveries of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan, saying that they could damage the traditionally close Russian-Armenian relations.
America cares deeply about its partnership with Armenia, Victoria Nuland, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, said in Yerevan on Wednesday on the third leg of her South Caucasus tour that also included stops in Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Saturday heaped praise on Karabakh Armenian commandos who have reportedly reached the crash site of the downed Armenian helicopter gunship near Nagorno-Karabakh after overcoming Azerbaijani obstruction.
The European Union has pledged to provide between 140 million and 170 million euros to Armenia for private-sector, public administration, and justice reforms over the next three years.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reaffirmed his country’s unconditional support for Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh during an official visit to Baku on Friday.
President Barack Obama has announced his decision to nominate another U.S. career diplomat as Washington’s next ambassador to Armenia.
President Serzh Sarkisian will represent Armenia at the third Eastern Partnership summit due to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, later this week, his press office confirmed on Tuesday.
Turkey and Azerbaijan criticized the United States, Russia and France on Wednesday for failing to achieve decisive progress in their protracted efforts to broker a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The European Union has warned Armenia to ensure that its efforts to integrate with the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan do not run counter to its impending Association Agreement with the EU.
The European Union has reaffirmed plans to finalize a far-reaching Association Agreement with Armenia in time for a November summit on the EU’s Eastern Partnership program covering six ex-Soviet states.
The European Union is pressing ahead with its preparations for an unprecedented conference of international donors that should approve large-scale economic assistance to Armenia, according to a top EU official.
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