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 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.
