Topic: Velvet Revolution
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s bloc scored a landslide victory in municipal elections in Yerevan on September 23, in the first major test of the new leader’s[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A panel discussion titled “Armenia’s Velvet Revolution After 6 Months: Beyond the Headlines,” will take place at Harvard University, Fong Auditorium (Boylston Hall), on Thursday, September 27, at[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL and Tass) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has downplayed problems in Yerevan’s relations with Moscow, describing them as a “work process in its natural course.” Answering questions[...]
YEREVAN (Panorama.am) — Former Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan will be questioned over the Yerevan Foundation fraud case, director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan told reporters on September[...]
One of prolific German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s most famous allegorical plays is called “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” which takes place in Georgia. In “The Caucasian Circle,” the main characters are[...]
By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan The first 100 days of Nikol Pashinyan’s government are puzzling as to the political realism of his government, on the one hand, and the existing global[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) has searched the offices and private residence of former President Robert Kocharyan as part of its ongoing inquiry into the 2008 post-election[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan strongly defended his government’s track record on Friday, August 17, as tens of thousands of people rallied in Yerevan to mark his first[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress, Public Radio of Armenia) – Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharyan was released from custody on court order on August 13. The Court of Appeals ruled to release him[...]
At one Armenia-Diaspora convocation in Yerevan long ago, where more than 3,000 participants were attending, a dramatic incident took place. Prime Minister Vazken Sargsyan, who had just returned from the[...]