Naira Bulghadarian is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
The director of a market where an apparent fireworks warehouse explosion killed at least 16 people in the Armenian capital has denied any breach of fire-safety regulations ahead of the tragedy.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian is being prosecuted in a new corruption case, officials and his lawyer say.
A court in Yerevan has granted an appeal by Armenian prosecutors seeking the rearrest of a prominent surgeon charged with pressuring his subordinates to go vote in the June 20 parliamentary elections in which he ran on the ticket of an opposition alliance.
An Armenian judge has dropped a criminal case against former President Robert Kocharian and his co-defendants over a deadly crackdown on protesters more than a decade ago.
A key witness in the criminal case against the leader of Armenia’s main opposition party has rejected allegations of vote-buying in the 2017 general elections.
The Armenian parliament has adopted proposed changes to the constitution that would lead to the removal of Constitutional Court judges, potentially opening the door for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to exert more influence over the South Caucasian nation.
As the coronavirus continues to spread in Armenia, the country’s health minister warns that the authorities may soon be unable to treat infected people showing mild symptoms of the disease.
Armenian newlyweds Georgy and Tatev Kantaria work as a doctor and a nurse. They went straight from their honeymoon to treating COVID-19 patients and say married life can wait.
Armenia’s former President Serzh Sarkisian is scheduled to go on trial on February 25 to defend himself against large-scale corruption charges he rejects as politically motivated.
Armenia has granted political asylum to a Russian opposition activist who spent four years in custody for his role in anti-government protests in Russia.
An Armenian judge who presided over the trial of former President Robert Kocharian and released him on bail in May has been charged with alleged forgery committed in relation to a separate case, the Special Investigative Service told RFE/RL on July 30.
More than a dozen supporters of jailed Iranian rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh have gathered outside Iran’s Embassy in Yerevan to call for her release.
Armenian officials say 75 were injured and more than 20 detained in clashes between police and protesters in the capital. The violence, which left three RFE/RL journalists injured, erupted when demonstrators tried to approach a police station where oppositionist gunmen have barricaded themselves,
The Armenian government has rejected a recommendation by the World Bank to put a debt-ridden Yerevan chemical plant into bankruptcy.
Armenia's human rights ombudsman has denounced rampant corruption in the country's judicial system. According to his findings, bribe-taking in Armenian courts is endemic and even has an unofficial price list.
As the United States and its allies lay plans for what many believe will be a sustained missile strike inside Syria, the sizable ethnic Armenian community in that country is bracing for the worst but carrying on with daily life. Some say the Armenian government should be doing more to help.
Nearly a century ago, ethnic Armenians fleeing mass killings by Ottoman-era Turks sought shelter in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. In the decades to come, they evolved into one of the cosmopolitan city's most vibrant and prosperous minority communities, working in trade, education, medicine, and carpentry. But mounting violence in the city has cast doubt on the fate of the city's ethnic Armenians. Many have already fled the city that once offered their parents and grandparents safe harbor.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has condemned the fatal shootings of three Armenian soldiers near the border with Azerbaijan, hinting that the gunfire came from Azerbaijan.
Before the arrival of Serop Der-Boghossian, this unassuming town in northern Armenia was marked by poverty and widespread unemployment.
