Armenia & Karabakh

YEREVAN (AP) — Protesters demonstrated Friday, March 17, for a second consecutive day over the death in prison of an opposition activist. More than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Yerevan[...]

YEREVAN — Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan received this week the founder of Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, Sam Simonian. The two men discussed issues related to the establishment of the[...]

By Hripsime Mkrtchyan YEREVAN — A new type of battery, the Simple Liquids Battery (SLB), offers an ecofriendly, safe and easily-chargeable device for emergency power generation. SLBs offer safe, non-toxic,[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama) — Armenia’s Tourism Development Fund, in cooperation with the State Committee for Tourism, has organized Armenian Brandy Festival in Tsaghkadzor on May 7. The Press Service of the[...]

YEREVAN — On March 21, at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Yerevan, representatives of Armenia and the European Union signed an agreement for closer ties.[...]

By Bryant Rousseau YEREVAN (New York Times) — Children in Armenia start thinking about their careers at a very young age — around six months or so. When an infant’s first tooth arrives,[...]

ISTANBUL (Agos) —Selina Dogan, a member of Turkey’s parliament representing the CHP (Republican People’s Party), last week commemorated Armenian writers and thinkers Elbis Gesaratsyan, Sirpuhi Düsap, Zabel Asadur, Zabel Yesayan[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — President Serzh Sargsyan on Monday gave the green light to the opening of an Armenian consulate general in Iraqi Kurdistan, underscoring Armenia’s growing ties to the region[...]

BAKU (RFE/RL) — Azerbaijan has made clear that it will not allow the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to deploy monitors on the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontlines around Nagorno-Karabakh.[...]

PARIS (Armenpress) — Member of French National Assembly, Co-chair of Armenia-France Parliamentary Friendship Group François Rochebloine drew the attention of French President Hollande on the case of the extradition of[...]

NEW YORK — Ayo!, the Fund for Armenian Relief’s crowdfunding platform, just launched a new campaign to raise funds for the Hrazdan Day Care Center for Disabled Children. The Center, which normally[...]