2026, 22 October, Thursday
Azerbaijani Journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov's Only Crime: Reporters Without Borders

Azerbaijani Journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov's Only Crime: Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders is outraged to learn that a Baku court extended journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov’s pre-trial detention for another four months on...

Former Presidential Candidate Seeks Compensation for Assassination Attempt

Former Presidential Candidate Seeks Compensation for Assassination Attempt

Union for National Self-Determination party leader, Soviet dissident, and former presidential candidate Paruyr Hayrikyan is seeking compensation in the amount of...

What is State Security Without People? Human Rights Activist on Volodya Avetisyan Case

What is State Security Without People? Human Rights Activist on Volodya Avetisyan Case

"The two incidents in the past two weeks — Azerbaijanis' incursion into Armenia and sentencing Karabakh War veteran Volodya Avetisyan (pictured) to 6 years in prison...

Territories of Vital Importance Must be Saved Through Rioting: Artur Sakunts

Territories of Vital Importance Must be Saved Through Rioting: Artur Sakunts

According to head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts, the only way to fight is that which Garni residents are doing; that is, through rioting...

Turkey May Create Free Trade Zone with Eurasian Customs Union: RIA Novosti

Turkey May Create Free Trade Zone with Eurasian Customs Union: RIA Novosti

"We have discussed the possible forms of cooperation, including the formation of a free trade zone between the Customs Union and Turkey...

My Protest was Act of Revenge Against the Trial: Hayk Kyureghyan

My Protest was Act of Revenge Against the Trial: Hayk Kyureghyan

Hayk Kyureghyan, who opened fire outside a Yerevan courthouse on June 12, is convinced that the majority of the public, if it doesn't encourage his act then...

Suspected of Killing Soldier in Karabakh, Fellow Conscript Arrested

Suspected of Killing Soldier in Karabakh, Fellow Conscript Arrested

On suspicion of murdering 20-year-old military conscript Gevorg Avagyan at around 7 am on July 18 at the combat position of one of the military units of...

Police Officer Provoked Me, Calling Me 'Turkish Agent': Political Activist on Trial

Police Officer Provoked Me, Calling Me 'Turkish Agent': Political Activist on Trial

The defense in the case of political activist Shant Harutyunyan and his friends said in court today that the testimony of police officer Gegham Khachatryan...

Friends of Karabakh War Veteran Convicted of Fraud Will Meet to Discuss Next Steps

Friends of Karabakh War Veteran Convicted of Fraud Will Meet to Discuss Next Steps

"The criminal regime couldn't have let him go; they too know well — the judge, his head hung, was mumbling, he didn't know what to say...

Former Prosecutor General Appointed New Position

Former Prosecutor General Appointed New Position

Former Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia (RA) Aghvan Hovsepyan today by a presidential decree was appointed head of the RA Investigative Committee.

20-Year-old Soldier Fatally Shot: Karabakh Defense Authorities

20-Year-old Soldier Fatally Shot: Karabakh Defense Authorities

20-year-old military conscript Gevorg Avagyan was fatally shot at around 7 am today, reports the Ministry of Defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

Woman Describes How Nightclub Guards Killed Her Karabakh War Veteran Husband: Hraparak

Woman Describes How Nightclub Guards Killed Her Karabakh War Veteran Husband: Hraparak

On July 13, in the yard of no. 114 kindergarten school in the Yerevan district of Nor Nork, several men brutally beat Karabakh War veteran Vardan Tumanyan, 55.