Ruben Vardanyan

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[...]

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,[...]

YEREVAN — The website www.freearmenianprisoners.com, run by the family on Ruben Vardanyan, issued a press release on March 13 about the humanitarian’s plight during his illegal incarceration in Baku: According[...]

NEW YORK — This week the Aurora Humanitarian Foundation and its CEO Armine Afeyan released a statement deploring the conviction of co-founder Ruben Vardanyan. “We strongly condemn the unjust conviction[...]

During a phone conversation with his family, Ruben Vardanyan conveyed the content of his final statement at his trial in Baku, on February 10. Refusing to participate in an imitation[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian businessman and former Nagorno-Karabakh premier captured by Azerbaijan in 2023, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday, February 17, at[...]

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Five former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh were sentenced to life imprisonment and two others received 20-year jail terms on Thursday, February 5, at the end[...]

By Rasmus Canback When the documentary “the Oligarch’s Design” premiered in Baku on December 20, it was attended by a host of state representatives and Azerbaijani MPs. The channel’s management[...]

By Karine Simonian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — The pro-government mayor of Dilijan is seeking court permission to terminate long-term lease agreements with the family of Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian billionaire and[...]

By Vahan Zanoyan “It is not death that is frightening. What is truly frightening is indifference — a state that enters us quietly and gradually, like radiation, and destroys us[...]