Artak Khulian is a correspondent in RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
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.
