- Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a protocol confirming the coordinates of the border delimitation process determined in Tavush.
- The Armenian government approved a state support program to provide housing for families forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh who become Armenian citizens.
- The detention period has been extended for Ruben Vardanyan and the other former Nagorno-Karabakh officials who are being held by Azerbaijan.
- Assessing support for Archbishop Galstanyan’s protest movement https://youtu.be/tNQ11SyxAxQ
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Former President Sargsyan acquitted in embezzlement case
By Mark Dovich Serzh Sargsyan, who served as Armenia’s president from 2008 to 2018, was acquitted Friday of embezzlement charges, along with two co-defendants, bringing an end to a yearslong criminal case that government critics decried as politically motivated. There was no immediate comment from Sargsyan on the matter. The Prosecutor General’s Office brought the case in 2019, shortly after Nikol Pashinyan was elected prime minister, ousting Sargsyan from power. It alleged the former president masterminded a scheme to embezzle more than $1 million from a program set up in 2013 by Armenia’s Agriculture Ministry to subsidize diesel fuel prices […]
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The prime minister’s big speech
In the latest episode of Insights, Eric Hacopian analyzes the devastating floods that swept through northern Armenia’s Lori region, resulting in deaths and leaving many displaced. Eric also evaluates Prime Minister Pashinyan’s response to the mass rally organized by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan and his supporters.
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Public health and public unrest
In this in-depth interview, CivilNet sits down with former Armenian Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan, now a parliament deputy, to discuss the country’s ongoing healthcare reforms, COVID response efforts over the past two years, and prospects for continued progress amid political turmoil. Torosyan offers a candid status update across key issues including public health initiatives on tobacco control and nonprofit hospitalization.
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Martiros Saryan, Serge Avedikian and Gaza
When the painter Martiros Saryan visited Istanbul in 1910, he was on the verge of entering a highly productive period. He wanted to understand the East, penetrate its soul, and express it in a new artistic form. “I wanted to express the realism of the East and find convincing ways to describe and depict that world, discover its new artistic comprehension,” wrote the artist, who is considered to be the founder of modern Armenian painting. He stayed in the Ottoman capital for two months and later visited Egypt and Iran. During this period, the artist’s colorful palette was fully revealed […]
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‘Delimitation means that Azerbaijan must withdraw’: French Ambassador Olivier Decottignies
Border demarcation between Armenia and Azerbaijan; relations between France and Armenia; obstacles to obtaining Schengen visas for Armenian citizens; armaments and field training; alleged Azerbaijani interference in New Caledonia. How does France approach these issues? Olivier Decottignies, the French Ambassador to Armenia, talks to CivilNet about these issues. Q: For several weeks now, Armenia has seen demonstrations against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government. The Tavush for the Homeland movement, led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, is demanding an end to the process of delimiting and demarcating the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as agreed by both governments last month. What is […]
