Daniel Arutyunov, founder of the Scream of Soul initiative, has organized skating tours on lakes in Armenia for the past three years.
Susanna Hovhannisyan also lived in Stepanakert. The pension of 63-year-old Susanna and her husband totaled 150,000 AMD per month. That amount was enough to cover the couple’s expenses.
Alina Harutyunyan and her husband's relatives were harvesting corn in their Artsakh village when the sky rumbled, and loud explosions were heard.
Mrs. Abrahamyan says she hasn’t been able to enroll her two sons at local public kindergartens because there’s no vacancies. Private kindergartens charge a monthly average of 70,000 AMD, which the family can’t pay.
Fourth grader Maneh Mirzoyan says the teacher ordered everyone to quickly go down to the basement, where they stayed until the evening.
Stepanakert resident Ani Hovhannisyan's younger daughter had just been brought home from school by her husband's aunt on September 19 when Azerbaijan launched its attack on Artsakh.
Several people today blocked a downtown Yerevan street in what they say is an attempt to raise awareness about the plight of Armenians in Karabakh.
Nicholas arrived in Yerevan from Cyprus on September 13. He took a taxi from Zvartnots Airport to reach his hotel on Nalbandian Street.
The teachers, some of whom arrived from outlying regions, also raised the issue of a lack of textbooks and an increasing workload.
The daughter of Vagif Khachatryan, who was detained by Azerbaijan border guards on July 29 along the Lachin Corridor, told reporters today outside the UN office in Yerevan to spread the news about her father’s illegal abduction.
People in Yerevan have, for the past week, donated food and medicine destined to the people of Artsakh.
Hermineh Avagyan, who participated in a hunger strike outside the U.N. office in Yerevan, is surprised abd disappointed that many in Armenia are not interested in the humanitarian crisis now facing Karabakh Armenians.
Artsakh State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan today criticized the international community of “being a silent participant in the unimaginable crime being perpetrated against the much-tormented people of Artsakh.”
Azerbaijan banned all humanitarian passenger and cargo transport through the corridor that links Armenia and Artsakh on June 15 following a clash between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along the Lachin Corridor.
The B’Arev (Hello) festival, a collaboration of local Armenians and repatriates, offered a variety of music genres from the stage and seeks to create a collective community consciousness through healthy living, music and art.
Regarding recent claims that Israeli manufactured Pegasus spyware targeted journalists and civil society activists in Armenia during and after the 2020 Karabakh war, information security expert Samvel Martirosyan believes Baku was behind the attacks.
Sahakyan said Hakobyan had no intention of kidnapping Ashot Pashinyan.
Relatives of Armenian soldiers who died in the 2020 Karabakh war today gathered outside a Yerevan court today where a case is being heard regarding the arrest of a woman who allegedly attempted to kidnap Ashot Pashinyan, the son of Armenian PM Nikol
Mkrtchyan participated in the first Artsakh war, was seriously injured, and died in 1999. He’s buried at Yerablur.
On May 9, 1992, Armenian forces captured the fortress town of Shushi. Azerbaijan retook the town in the 2020 war.
When asked to comment on a Hetq article on how Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan purchased a Yerevan apartment at way below market value last summer, PM Nikol Pashinyan said investigators are looking into the matter even though he doesn’t see
Gabrielyan, a native of the Artsakh town of Askeran, says he misses his students and hopes to reunite with them soon.
Mariam Abrahamyan, another demonstrator, said while she welcomes what the IRC has done to alleviate the impact of the road closure, it’s not enough. “The situation is getting worse from day to day,” she said.
Store shelves in Artsakh are almost empty three weeks into the closure of the Lachin Corridor.
Dozens of college students in Armenia today marched from the Yerevan State University campus to the Government Building and called on the government to take steps to reopen the Lachin Corridor that has been blocked by a group of Azerbaijani “eco-acti
Former Artsakh State Minister Artak Beglaryan today said he will continue his sit-down protest action outside the U.N. Office in Yerevan until the Lachin Corridor linking Artsakh and Armenia is reopened.
Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan, at a protest rally outside the U.N. office in Yerevan, has charged the international community of inaction three days after Azerbaijan closed the Lachin Corridor, the sole roadway linking Artsakh and Ar
Martin Avetisyan, a private in the Armenian army serving in Syunik, was killed in a drone strike on September 13, 2022 when Azerbaijani troops launched attacks along Armenia’s eastern border.
The striking workers say they are paid 100,000 drams monthly (US$247), not the 160,000 stated in their contracts.
The site, which has remained an eyesore in the center of Yerevan for years, can now be developed with private funding according to Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan.
What follows are some of these demonstrations covered by the international media.
Armenian Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Vache Terteryan reports that 192 houses have been damaged or destroyed in recent fighting along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
A handful of people gathered today outside the U.N. Office in Yerevan to protest what they describe as the organization’s double standard regarding Azerbaijan’s military attacks along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.
A few dozen protesters, including relatives of Armenian soldiers killed during the 2020 Artsakh war, gathered in front of the National Assembly building in Yerevan today, demanding the resignation of the government.
Sargsyan sat down with Hetq to share what he witnessed on the ground prior to the November 9 ceasefire.
Edward's son-in-law Vladimir went to identify the body.
Several Hetq telephone calls to Gevorg Altunyan, who heads the ministry’s press service, have gone unanswered.
Never Kirakosyan and Artur Avagyan said anyone can join their hunger strike and that the Karabakh issue is so critical that it prompted them to take such an extreme step.
According to Seda Grigoryan, a member of the protest organizing group, they are appealing to the international community to use all possible means to prevent Azerbaijan from carrying out such a policy in Artsakh.
The award ceremony was a joint effort of Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan, Naira Hovsepyan (the mother of Combat Cross awardee Gevorg Arshakyan) and human rights activist Siranush Sahakyan.
Hetq took the video on October 15.
Grigoryan announced the news on Armenian Public TV, stating that Armenia will set up its own checkpoints on the roadway in Syunik. Azerbaijan has deployed troops to monitor sections of the highway that Baku claims are Azerbaijani territory
23,500 saplings were planted last spring in Armenia’s Armavir Province. 90% of them have already withered and died.
A few days ago, he saw a video on the internet showing Azerbaijanis ransacking their home in Artsakh.
Azerbaijani forces occupied the entire Hadrut region during last year’s war.
Tevonyan adviser Armenak Baghiryan conveyed the news to Hetq, saying the resignation was unexpected and that he had no other details.
Former Armenian residents of Hadrut, Karvatchar and Shushi, areas in Artsakh now occupied by Azerbaijan, demonstrated outside the Government Building in Yerevan, demanding that the government provide them with housing or land to build on.
The Armenian captives were taken to a prison for ten days and were relentlessly interrogated. Poghosyan says there was no beds or chairs in the cell, only a camera on the wall.
Azerbaijani troops captured Avetaranots, a village in Artsakh’s Askeran region, on October 27, 2020.