Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan rejected on Monday, April 15, human rights activists’ and opposition leaders’ criticism of his angry behavior and sacking orders issued during a visit to a customs facility in[...]

War, earthquake and the collapse of the Soviet Union have taken heavy tolls on Armenia and the country, with all its intellectual resources, has not been able to recover fully within the last quarter century, because its neighbors have[...]

VIENNA (Combined Sources) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have described the latest meeting of their leaders as “positive” and “constructive,” saying they agreed to strengthen the cease-fire regime in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone[...]

News is scant, but commentaries are in abundance after the summit between Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Vienna on March 30. No breakthroughs were expected and none were reported. The[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The newly appointed ambassador of the United States to Armenia has reaffirmed her government’s commitment to assisting “sovereign Armenia” as she was received by the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Friday,[...]

If the pundits thus far have believed that the Karabakh conflict is one of the most intractable problems of our time, now new elements have emerged to render the problem even more convoluted and therefore more dangerous, all under the[...]

BRUSSELS (RFE/RL) — The European Union welcomes the Armenian government’s ambitious reform agenda and is ready to support it with greater aid, European Council President Donald Tusk said after meeting with Prime Minister Nikol[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Representatives of the pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament denounced on February 26 what they called threats to the authorities made by a leader of a party whose members stormed a police station in[...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The National Assembly began debating on Tuesday, February 12, the Armenian government’s five-year program which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan again portrayed as a policy framework for an “economic revolution” in[...]

PARIS (Combined Sources) — French President Emmanuel Macron declared April 24 as “a national day of remembrance of the Armenian genocide” on Tuesday, February 5. Macron, in keeping with a 2017 campaign promise, told an[...]