Armenia

January 27, 2026 21:47

• More than 70 people supported the call to bury Aishat Baimuradova in Armenia.

  A petition calling for the return of the body of Chechen woman Ayshat Baimuradova, murdered in Yerevan, to her friends for burial in Armenia has garnered 73 signatures in just one day.

January 27, 2026 04:04

• Lawyers and activists in Armenia have spoken out in support of the church.

  More than a thousand citizens have signed a statement in defense of the Armenian Apostolic Church, initiated by a group of lawyers and public figures. They called the authorities' actions against the church unconstitutional.

January 26, 2026 16:58

• Human rights activists have called on Armenian authorities to return Aishat Baimuradova's body to her friends.

  Friends of Ayshat Baimuradova, a Chechen woman murdered in Yerevan, are ready to give her a proper funeral, human rights activists said, calling on Armenian authorities to return her body. They have published a petition asking for Baimuradova's remains to be returned to those willing to bury her.

January 26, 2026 05:31

• Two people were killed in a grenade explosion in Goris.

  In Goris, a grenade exploded during a dispute between relatives, killing two people and hospitalizing another. Among the dead was Goris Mayor Arushanyan's driver.

January 25, 2026 11:56

• Pashinyan's opponent in Talin spoke out in support of the church leader.

  During Nikol Pashinyan's visit, Talin resident Sarkis Petrosyan spoke out in support of His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II. The rector of a church in Talin faced pressure from officials before the prime minister's arrival.

January 24, 2026 01:45

• Karabakh residents rebuked Armenia's Minister of Labor for a publication about displaced persons.

  In a statement about 11 displaced persons, Armenia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs referred to Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani territory. Karabakh refugees called the official's language unacceptable to the forcibly displaced persons.

January 24, 2026 00:56

• The acquittal of participants in the Tavush in the Name of the Motherland movement has been overturned.

  The court overturned the acquittal of Gagik Ambartsumyan, Zhora Avetisyan, and Mesrop Yesayan, who were arrested during a protest outside the Armenian Foreign Ministry in May 2024. The case has been sent back for a new trial.

January 23, 2026 13:32

• 11 people were transported from Karabakh to Armenia.

  Ten ethnic Armenians and one Russian with Armenian citizenship, who remained in Karabakh after the exodus of the population, asked to be resettled in Armenia; they have already been transported.

January 23, 2026 01:50

• Vagif Khachatryan underwent surgery in Yerevan.

  Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who returned to Armenia from imprisonment in Azerbaijan, underwent surgery in Yerevan. Doctors described his condition as stable.

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