Gayane Saribekian Azatutyun.am Billionaire and opposition leader Samvel Karapetian speaks to journalists outside a court in Yerevan, June 12, 2026. Billionaire Samvel Karapetian proposed on Friday a
azatutyun.am In a move which critics say is aimed at giving the ruling Civil Contract party a more comfortable majority in Armenia’s new parliament, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has annulled
Armenpress Armenia will send humanitarian aid to Lebanon. The decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting. The aid will be sent via Turkey by land through the Margara checkpoint, which will be opened
The Society for Armenian Studies announced the recipients of its Spring 2026 Graduate Research and Conference Grants. They are: Armen Manuk-Khaloyan for his paper on “Whose Empire? Late Ottoman Armenian
Armenpress Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the Civil Contract party’s victory in the June 7 parliamentary elections, the Prime Minister’s
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2026.2680151 CrossMark ABSTRACT Explanatory frameworks concerning Azerbaijan’s military assertiveness against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh have
Armenpress Former Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan has been declared wanted by Armenian law enforcement agencies in a money laundering case, days after investigators indicted him along with other former
Many Iranian activists have speculated that the hair came from some of the protesters killed during the January demonstrations, but hair smuggling was already a problem in Iran. An Iranian woman walks
Daraj.media While international media coverage portrays the elections in Armenia as a geopolitical struggle between Russia and a “West”, the key to understand the victory of Nikol Pashinyan is local.
