Bahai community in Armenia. Photo: Chai Khana
Armenia’s small Baha’i community has lived in the country for over a century; now they are finding their place in the new post-revolutionary order. [Read more…]
Being Baha’i in Armenia
Pashinyan joined by Rouhani and Putin at Eurasian Economic Union summit in Yerevan
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan with the President of Moldova Igor Dodon, President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Eight heads of state gathered this week in Yerevan at the annual meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union. The event included a one-on-one meeting between the Russian and Armenian leaders as well as Iran announcing its intentions to join the Russia-led trading bloc. [Read more…]
Yerevan municipality takes over waste-collection
Sanitek's overturned bins next to the new green bins provided by Yerevan Municipality. Photo: Hovhannes Ishkhanyan/OC Media.
Yerevan’s authorities have taken over waste-collection from Lebanon-based contractor Sanitek after the summer’s ‘rubbish crisis’. [Read more…]
Armenian agricultural export giant Spayka charged with tax evasion
Protest of Spayka employees. (Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)
Armenia’s State Revenue Committee has initiated criminal proceedings against Spayka, a major exporter of agricultural products, and its director for failing to pay taxes. [Read more…]
Armenia’s blind struggle to find a livelihood
Andranik Kocharyan with his family (Mania Israyelyan/OC Media)
Faced with ignorance and discrimination, finding work as a blind person in Armenia can be a difficult task. [Read more…]
Trans woman ejected from Armenian parliament after appeal to MPs
(Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)
A transgender human rights activist was asked to leave Armenia’s parliament, the National Assembly, after giving an impassioned speech to MP’s calling for more protection for transgender people in the country. [Read more…]
Protests as Yerevan authorities demolish cafés around Opera Square
Demolition of cafés in the park around the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan. (Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)
Authorities in Yerevan have begun to demolish cafés in the park around the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, leading to protests from staff and owners. [Read more…]
In pictures | Nowhere else to go: the stories of Yerevan’s homeless
A homeless man sleeps on a bench in the centre of Yerevan. There are currently around 400 homeless people in Yerevan, with three-quarters of them living on the streets. (Armine Avetisyan/OC Media)
Yerevan’s homeless population comes from all over Armenia and beyond, but they all have ended up in the same place. There is one shelter in the city, with a capacity of 100, but it is not enough to house the hundreds living on Yerevan’s streets. [Read more…]
Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward
Javid Agha is an Ankara-based writer and social media observer focusing on Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose writing has been featured across the web including on the BBC. He is editor of Azerbaijani art and culture platform, VarYox.
In Azerbaijan, as in Armenia, remembrance of the victims of past atrocities often takes on a one-sided nature. Despite attempts to twist and politicise such events to serve nationalist causes, a more compassionate approach is needed to move forward, and a remembrance that above all, innocent victims are always sacred.
Taxes, corruption, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Turkey: Pashinyan’s vision for the ‘New Armenia’
Having swept to power in a landslide electoral victory, the new government of revolutionary leader Nikol Pashinyan is now laying out its vision for a ‘New Armenia’ — with ambitious plans for peace and reform.
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