Karine Simonian is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
Residents of several Armenian communities in northeastern Tavush Province began protests late on April 19 after authorities in Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a border-delimitation deal under which Baku will regain control of four formerly Azeri-populated villages in the area.
Locals in Armenia's Tavush Province fear they will be cut off from key roads amid peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan following the armed conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia cede four villages.
A 65-year-old ethnic Armenian refugee talks about the frightening, hectic hours and days following a cease-fire that emptied her village near the former front lines in Nagorno-Karabakh.
At an international school in Armenia, students from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus share their views on the war, a year after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While the students' hopes for peace have not been met, they continue to discuss possible solutions to the conflict.
Workers at Armenia's largest textile producer are facing massive layoffs or deep wage cuts largely linked to the country's national currency, the dram, which has risen dramatically since Ukraine was invaded by Russia, Armenia's largest trading partner.
Landlocked Armenia has a struggling economy and high unemployment rate, but the country's growth as an IT center gives hope for change.
Many observers in Russia and the West are comparing the ongoing Armenian protests against rising electricity prices to the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine. But spokespeople in Yerevan are resisting this attempt to broaden the framing of their project.
There was plenty of water in the Armenian village of Apaga just a few years ago, but that was before the surrounding region was dotted with new wells to supply fish farms, some owned by the prime minister and his family. Now, residents say Apaga's water supply is running dry -- and they doubt the government will do anything about it.
Sasun Mikaelian, a former member of parliament, was serving an eight-year jail sentence on charges of organizing mass disturbances after the disputed February 2008 election. He was also found guilty of illegal arms possession.
The oldest winery in the world has been found deep in a mountain cavern in what is now Armenia, in a discovery that has locals celebrating.
For the first time in nearly a century, Armenians have been allowed to conduct a religious service in a recently renovated island church in eastern Turkey, in an event that Ankara intended as a show of tolerance toward its Christian minority.
A planned religious service at an Armenian church in eastern Turkey is threatening to descend into a major dispute between the two nations, still bitterly divided over their troubled history.
