Artak Khulyan is a correspondent in RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
Masked Armenian police were thwarted by clergy and church supporters who blocked agents as they attempted to detain a senior Armenian Apostolic Church cleric as a standoff between authorities and the church escalates.
An Armenian archbishop who led last year massive anti-government protests and at least 14 of his supporters were detained on Wednesday, with law-enforcement authorities accusing them of plotting “terrorist acts” in a bid to seize power.
Angry protesters in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, pelted the Belarusian Embassy with eggs and tomatoes on August 21 after recent comments by Alyaksandr Lukashenka sparked outrage.
Business owners in the northern Armenian town of Alaverdi were taking stock of ruined goods after severe floods swept across the region. Hundreds of people have fled their homes, where utilities were cut off, while officials said deliveries of emergency food and clean water were under way.
Rains have swollen rivers in the Armenian provinces of Lori and Tavush, killing at least four people in the country's worst flooding in decades. A bridge in the town of Alaverdi has collapsed. On May 26, RFE/RL filmed rescuers using improvised cables to transport items between the riverbanks.
Senior Armenian and Azerbaijani officials held another round of direct talks on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a key hurdle to a comprehensive peace deal between the two nations.
Russians opposed to Vladimir Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine are reportedly leaving the country in growing numbers. One destination is Armenia, which has not backed international efforts to isolate and condemn the Kremlin's unprovoked military assault.
Armenian authorities say the search for a former prosecutor-general wanted on criminal charges continues after a document unveiled by a lawmaker suggested that Interpol has refused to put him on the international wanted list.
Opposition factions in Armenia's parliament have called for an end to martial law after it was declared following the outbreak of war with Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2020.
An Armenian court late on September 25 put the leader of the country’s main opposition party in two months of pretrial detention as part of a vote-buying case he calls politically motivated.
Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharian, who is currently in pretrial detention, has been hospitalized to undergo medical examinations, according to his lawyer and one of his aides.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities on December 27 brought criminal charges against Constitutional Court Chairman Hrayr Tovmasian in what he immediately denounced as a “political process” aimed at forcing his resignation.
Armenia's parliament has rejected consideration of a bill seeking to expressly outlaw same-sex marriages in the Caucasus nation.
Armenian police are investigating the death of a 30-year-old Russian border guard stationed in Armenia.
Enraged Armenian Prime Minister Pashinian demands that heads roll after finding a dirty flag at a customs facility.
