Azerbaijan

SAN FRANCISCO (Times of Israel) — The recent appointment of George Deek as Israel’s special envoy to the Christian world has been framed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a bridge-building[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian businessman jailed in Azerbaijan, has launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and claimed that Armenia risks becoming a Turkish[...]

As elections approach in Armenia, the political landscape becomes increasingly filled with discussions about whether different political forces are under the influence of various external political centers. This is, in[...]

WASHINGTON — The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) welcomes a newly issued report Justice Under Pressure: Independence of Lawyers and the Right to a Fair Trial in Azerbaijan by the[...]

By Gayane Saribekian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Yet another former leader of Nagorno-Karabakh jailed in Azerbaijan has condemned his and the other Armenian prisoners’ trials and accused the Azerbaijani authorities of[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent businessman remaining in Azerbaijani captivity along with at least 18 other Armenians, has stepped up his accusations that Armenia’s government is indifferent to[...]

By Peter Barabas YEREVAN (Euronews) — In an extraordinary admission, Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan declared that Karabakh was not Armenia’s territory and that the Armenian movement for it was “a[...]

YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan has been transferred to the Umbaki Penitentiary in Baku after his prison sentence formally entered into force, according to Siranush Sahakyan,[...]

In recent months, a clear slowdown has been noticed in the process of normalizing Armenian–Turkish and Armenian–Azerbaijani relations. It has reached a point where the parties themselves openly state that[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Azerbaijan’s government-controlled Islamic religious body confirmed and defended on Monday the destruction of Nagorno-Karabakh’s largest Armenian cathedral and another church located in Stepanakert. It claimed[...]