Heghine Buniatyan has been a senior editor with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service since June 2016. She has previously served as the editor-in-chief of the Yerevan bureau, a broadcaster, and as the director of the Maxliberty Youth Program.
The presidents of Russia and Armenia discussed the future of Turkish-Armenian relations during fresh talks held in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday. They made no public statements afterwards.
A high-level delegation of the European Union led by Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will arrive in Yerevan on Tuesday at the start of a tour of the three South Caucasus states.
Armenia remains a “partly free” country with scant government respect for political and civil rights, a U.S. human rights watchdog said in its latest survey of freedom around the world.
After months of uncertainty, Armenia looks set to start importing natural gas from neighboring Iran through a recently built pipeline this week.
Foreign Minister Ali Babacan on Tuesday appeared to reaffirm Turkey’s renewed linkage between improved relations with Armenia and a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that would satisfy Azerbaijan.