Satenik Kaghzvantsian is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
An outspoken priest leading Armenia’s latest protest movement vowed renewed efforts to remove Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian from power as he continued to tour Armenia’s regions this month.
A year after Derenik Tepoyan, 64, was killed on a Russian firing range in the northwestern Armenian village of Vahramaberd, his family is looking for answers and wants measures taken to prevent further casualties.
Armenian Gevorg Margarian, 27, was nearing the end of a prison term in Russia when his family was informed by text message that he had died in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Human rights groups say migrants in Russian jails are deliberately targeted to fight in Ukraine.
Dozens of activists of a hard-line Armenian nationalist group were detained by local police on January 8 after attempting to block entrance to a Russian military base in the northwestern Armenian town of Gyumri.
Artyom Yemelyanov is one of thousands of IT workers who left their homes in Russia and moved to Armenia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Opposing the war, they sought sanctuary abroad. And for many, Armenia was the best choice.
The trial of a Russian soldier charged with beating a woman to death has begun in the Armenian city of Gyumri, although the defendant was not transported from the Russian military base to the court for the proceedings.
