Russia

ST. PETERSBURG (Public Radio of Armenia) — Former Russian official Boris Avakyan, who escaped from a St. Petersburg court the previous day, reportedly committed suicide inside the Armenian Consulate, on[...]

YEREVAN–STOCKHOLM  —  My longtime friend, journalist and translator Laura D. Minasyan, is among the people I especially value: warm, kind, artistic, multilingual, open to the world yet faithful to her[...]

For the third time in as many months, the Russian natural gas supplier Gazprom is turning off the tap to Armenia, claiming a need to repair infrastructure. Some observers believe[...]

By Arshaluys Barseghyan Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Overchuk have offered contradictory statements regarding the outcomes of the US–Armenia–Azerbaijan summit in Washington on August[...]

In a wide-ranging television interview on August 27,  Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev asserted a key provision of the Trump peace plan for the Caucasus can be implemented quickly. The same[...]

TIANJIN, China (Azatutyun) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met in China on Sunday, August 31, for what were their first face-to-face talks held in[...]

To Go On Living: Stories (Plough Publishing, 2025) is the portrait of a community fighting for survival. More than the story of the individual characters we meet in its thirty-one[...]

By Raffi V. Arkun Special to the Mirror-Spectator WATERTOWN — “My country is the world, my countrymen are all mankind.” This motto, based on the words of American abolitionist William[...]

I have previously argued that the United States does not have a strategic presence in the South Caucasus and has never had one. I expressed the opinion that the Trump[...]

As expected, the statement signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan under the mediation of the United States became a subject of serious discussion not only in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United[...]