Armenia & Karabakh

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — International mediators are trying to organize another meeting of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers later this month, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, January 8. “The[...]

YEREVAN/RIGA — I met Latvian photographer Georgs Avetisjans at the end of April in Yerevan, at the height of the Velvet Revolution. Yet the purpose of his visit was not[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other Armenian officials attend a Christmas mass at St. Gregory’s Cathedral in Yerevan, January 6. The supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic[...]

WASHINGTON — On January 3, the United States Senate confirmed by a voice vote Ambassadorial nominees Lynne M. Tracy and Earle D. Litzenberger to represent the United States in Armenia[...]

KOGHB, Armenia – The TUMO Center for Creative Technologies and the Koghb Foundation have launched a fundraising effort to build a TUMO center in Koghb. TUMO CEO Marie Lou Papazian[...]

By Joshua Kucera MOSCOW (Eurasianet) — Russia has raised the price for the gas it sells to Armenia by 10 percent. The negotiations over the gas price were seen as[...]

DILIJAN, Armenia — Students at the State Art College of Dilijan are ringing in the New Year with music, and with brand new instruments, thanks to the initiative of the[...]

By Sona Hamalian YEREVAN — Constantine Orbelian has received a Grammy nomination for his recording of Guiseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” The nomination, in the Best Opera Recording category, was announced by[...]

VALLETTA, Malta (Panorama.am) — The artistic director and principal conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan is set to perform his first concert of 2019 in Valletta, Malta.[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The number of foreign tourists visiting Armenia has continued to grow this year, reaching a new high of almost 1.3 million in January-September, a senior government official[...]

GYUMRI, Armenia (RFE/RL) — Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan praised the Russian military base in Armenia and its geopolitical role when he visited its headquarters in Gyumri on Saturday. Tonoyan attended[...]