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.
Hungary has reportedly warned Armenia to restore diplomatic relations with the central European state or face “serious ramifications” of its furious reaction to the release from a Hungarian prison of the Azerbaijani axe-killer of an Armenian army officer.
The European Union has urged the Armenian authorities to hold more democratic elections in the future, while reiterating its largely positive reaction to their handling of last month’s legislative polls.
The number of Armenian citizens seeking asylum in developed countries has been on the rise in the past two years, according to a UN refugee agency.
A young ethnic Armenian is being treated for multiple stab wounds after surviving a suspected racially motivated attack by a neo-Nazi group in Poland.
The Armenian government has presented the European Union with a new plan of political and economic reforms which it hopes will speed up Armenia’s integration into the bloc.
The upper house of France’s parliament effectively rejected late Wednesday a bill that would make it a crime to publicly state that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey did not constitute genocide.
Official Baku has indicated its strong disapproval of Iran’s deepening commercial ties with Armenia, with pro-government members of Azerbaijan’s parliament accusing Tehran of pursuing an “anti-Azerbaijani” policy in the region.
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.
