Susan Badalian

Ստեղծվել է Susan Badalian

• Դեկտեմբեր 23, 2025

  Karabakh Armenian Prisoner Reportedly Hospitalized In Azerbaijan

  One of the Armenian prisoners held in Azerbaijan has reportedly been hospitalized after what authorities in Baku described on Tuesday as a sharp deterioration of his health.

• Դեկտեմբեր 19, 2025

  Pro-Pashinian Bishops’ Massive Security Detail Raises Questions

  Dozens of men believed to be law-enforcement officers manhandled journalists outside Armenia’s main cathedral late on Thursday as they escorted renegade clerics who were met with a furious reception from thousands of people demonstrating in support of Catholicos Garegin II.

• Դեկտեմբեր 03, 2025

  Priest Claims Pressure From Armenian Security Service

  A priest in Gyumri claimed on Wednesday that officials from Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) have asked him to break canonical rules and defy Catholicos Garegin II so that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian can attend a Sunday mass at his church.

• Դեկտեմբեր 01, 2025

  Jailed Archbishops Reaffirm Support For Armenian Church Head

  Two jailed archbishops have strongly condemned a dozen of their colleagues who have effectively joined in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Garegin II.

• Նոյեմբեր 14, 2025

  First Prayer Breakfast Held In Armenia

  An event modeled on the U.S. tradition of holding National Prayer Breakfasts took place in Armenia on November 14, bringing together around 300 local and international guests.

• Նոյեմբեր 10, 2025

  Catholicos Orders Probe Into ‘Intimate’ Videos Allegedly Showing Senior Cleric

  The Catholicos of All Armenians has established a special committee to examine “intimate” videos allegedly depicting Archbishop Arshak Khachatrian, the head of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin’s chancery, a senior clergyman told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.

• Հոկտեմբեր 23, 2025

  Armenian Journalists Attacked By Defrocked Priest’s Supporters

  Police stood by and looked on as supporters of a defrocked Armenian priest allied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian attacked an RFE/RL crew and other journalists at a church on Thursday.

• Հոկտեմբեր 21, 2025

  Pro-Pashinian Priest Defrocked By Armenian Church

  A priest who appears to have helped Armenian authorities arrest two more clergymen last week publicly pledged allegiance to Prime Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday right after being defrocked by the leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

• Հոկտեմբեր 07, 2025

  Armenian Community Still Tense After Opposition Mayor’s Murder

  Amid heavy police presence, tensions remained high on Tuesday in a major rural community just west of Yerevan two weeks after the killing of its opposition mayor.

• Սեպտեմբեր 26, 2025

  Law-Enforcement Officials Sacked After Opposition Mayor’s Killing

  Armenia’s police and Investigative Committee sacked on Friday two of their top officials in the Armavir province where the opposition head of a major local community was shot dead earlier this week.

• Սեպտեմբեր 23, 2025

  Armenian Death Toll In 2020 War Still Matter Of Contention

  Armenia’s leadership has accused its political opponents of inflating the number of Armenians killed during the 2020 war with Azerbaijan while still not releasing a complete list of the casualties.

• Սեպտեմբեր 16, 2025

  Armenian Church Head Meets Pope Leo, Again Slams Azerbaijan

  Catholicos Garegin II again accused Azerbaijan of destroying Armenian churches in Nagorno-Karabakh and called for the release of Armenian prisoners held by Baku when he met with Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday.

• Սեպտեմբեր 01, 2025

  OSCE Minsk Group On Karabakh Dissolved

  Responding to a joint appeal by Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has formally agreed to dissolve its Minsk Group formed in 1992 to deal with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

• Օգոստոս 28, 2025

  Pashinian ‘Still Determined’ To Oust Armenian Church Head

  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that he has not abandoned his efforts to oust Catholicos Garegin II despite a backlash from opposition groups and other supporters of the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

• Օգոստոս 15, 2025

  Pashinian Found In Breach Of Ethics Over ‘Indecent’ Language

  Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) has found Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in breach of ethics after reviewing public complaints that he used the equivalent of the F-word on social media and an opposition claim that he called a political opponent a “scumbag” during a parliamentary debate.

• Հուլիս 30, 2025

  Jailed Archbishop’s Aide Freed By Court

  An Armenian appeals court has released from custody a junior cleric who was arrested a month ago along with Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian and his 13 other supporters on coup charges denied by them.

• Հուլիս 23, 2025

  Ter-Petrosian Urges Release Of ‘Political Prisoners’

  Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to abandon plans to storm the Echmiadzin headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and to free instead two archbishops and other jailed critics described by him as political prisoners.

• Հուլիս 07, 2025

  Pashinian Hints At Another Police Raid On Armenian Church Headquarters

  Security forces must be able to again raid the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Monday three days after its top clergy called for the immediate release of two outspoken archbishops arrested late last month.

• Հունիս 23, 2025

  Garegin Condemns Pashinian’s ‘Anti-Church Campaign’

  Catholicos Garegin II condemned Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s efforts to depose him and other senior clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church during a religious festival held in Echmiadzin on Sunday.

• Հունիս 20, 2025

  Armenian Village Close To Iran Reported Under Azeri Fire

  An Armenian village close to the Iranian border reportedly came under cross-border Azerbaijani fire on Friday as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian flew to Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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