Armenia
Outrage after Yerevan’s Mayor calls local media a ‘big garbage dump’
The comments came after Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan was investigated for corruption by CivilNet and the OCCRP.
Armenia has been struck by political unrest since the peace deal to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh was agreed on between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.
According to the deal, Armenia will hand control of several territories to Azerbaijan but the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh is undefined. Russian peacekeepers have already entered Nagorno Karabakh to oversee the deal.
Read all of our coverage of the war including our Voices for Peace series.
Latest stories:
- Armenia and Azerbaijan agree peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh
- Common Ground: Anti-War Statement
- Opinion | ‘We did not speak, we only whispered’
- Evidence mounts of war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Aliyev and Pashinyan mark ‘red lines’ in interviews with RIA Novosti
- Azerbaijani peace activists called for questioning
- Opinion | On the importance of losing
- Opinion | How I learned not to hate
- Opinion | We are a generation of war
- Opinion | To stand for peace, in spite of everything
- Analysis | A dangerous turn in a 30-year conflict
- Under fire in Stepanakert
For ease of reading, we choose not to use qualifiers such as ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’, or ‘partially recognised’ when discussing institutions or political positions within Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia. This does not imply a position on their status.
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