YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights has again expressed serious concern at the continuing imprisonment of dozens of Armenian opposition members and supporters on what he considers dubious charges.
“The situation with respect to the persons deprived of their liberty in connection with the 1-2 March events continues to be a source of [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–President Serzh Sarkisian appointed on Tuesday a leading member of his Republican Party of Armenia, Karen Karapetian, as his new chief of staff.
A member of the Armenian parliament since 1995, Karapetian was until now the leader of the largest National Assembly faction representing the Republican Party. The previous head of the presidential administration, Hovik [...]

TBILISI (Armenpress)–Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian traveled to Tbilisi Tuesday and met his Georgian counterpart Mikhail Saakashvili to discuss regional issues. At the conclusion of the meeting, Sarkisian told reporters during a joint press conference with his Georgian counterpart that his visit was successful and the two leaders had reached important conclusions on issues of mutual [...]

Turkey is sponsoring additional Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations on the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in an apparent effort to hasten the normalization of its historically strained ties with Armenia.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan sat down with his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts in New York on September 26 as Ankara sought to keep up the momentum in its unprecedented [...]

WASHINGTON–Ambassador to Turkey designate James Jeffrey, in response to questions from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (D-DE), affirmed that official U.S. diplomatic reports by Ambassadors Morgenthau and Elkus and other Armenian Genocide-era U.S. diplomats in the Ottoman Empire did, in fact, describe the attempted extermination of the Armenian population, [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Armenia hosted on Monday the first NATO-led military exercises in the South Caucasus since the recent Russian-Georgian war, underlining its intention to continue exercising its longstanding policy of balance relations between East and West, despite the recent chill in relations between Russia and the US over Georgia.
About one thousand troops from 17 nations, eight [...]

YEREVAN–American citizens currently residing in Armenia, including members of the vibrant and growing community of Armenian Americans living and working in Armenia, have organized a local affiliate of Americans Abroad for Obama to help secure a victory this November for the Democratic Presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who have far outdone the [...]

BAKU (Trend)–Praising the growing interest of third parties to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Monday made vague reference to alternative “international formats and precedents” that should be “taken into consideration” in the conflict settlement process.
“Despite all mediation initiatives, there are international formats and precedents for having negotiations on the conflict settlement and [...]

ANKARA (Hurriyet)–The Turkish-Armenian border may be opened if certain prerequisits are met and certain existing problems are solved, Turkish President Abdullah Gul told reporters Saturday.
"The aim of the talks with Armenia is to start the dialogue that will remove problems. If these problems are solved in this process, then we can have any kind of [...]

YEREVAN (ArmRadio)–A new highway set to significantly ease traffic congestion in downtown Yerevan was opened on Monday after three years of construction
The Saralanj road, a project financed by the Lincy Foundation, connects Heratsi Street near the Medical School in downtown Yerevan to Vagharshian Street. The new highway connects to the Yeghvard highway over the Davitashen [...]

At 26, in the world today, she is the youngest head of a global news and entertainment TV channel. In the past year formerly vocal critics of the channel have been replaced by a more balanced discussion about what type of news an English-speaking audience expects from a Russian information channel broadcasting only in English. [...]