The U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House says only 13 percent of the world’s population live in countries with a free press.
As the world's largest Yazidi temple begins to take shape in Armenia, the country's Yazidis see a historic shift coming for their embattled religion.
The press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that media freedom is increasingly threatened under authoritarian regimes as well as in countries regarded as models of democracy.
The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on April 25 in Moscow.
Ceremonies marked the anniversary of the beginning of mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Officials laid flowers at a memorial in Yerevan following a torchlight march the night before. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Commemoration ceremonies have been held in Armenia to mark the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 102 years ago.
A Russian soldier was stabbed to death in the northern city of Gyumri, where Moscow maintains a garrison and which was the site of a grisly mass slaying by a Russian serviceman in 2015 that triggered widespread outrage in the ex-Soviet republic.
A movie that portrays a romance taking place during the massacre of Armenians during World War I in what is now Turkey premiers in U.S. theaters on April 21.
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The opposition election bloc comprising former President Levon Ter-Petrossian's Armenian National Congress and the People's Party of Armenia headed by Stepan Demirchian says it will appeal to the Constitutional Court to annul the outcome of the April 2 parliamentary elections. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL)
Populists' recent successes at the polls in the West have increased fears of instability in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia against a backdrop of setbacks for democratic governance, democracy monitor Freedom House has warned.
A reporter with RFE/RL's Armenian Service was attacked on April 2 in Yerevan's Kond neighborhood after investigating allegations of vote-buying at a local campaign office of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK). (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
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