Arshaluys Barseghyan

2 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Aytan Farhadova

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberThe head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, has visited Minsk to consecrate the country’s first such church. It was his first visit to Belarus, which comes amidst tense relations between Armenian President Nikol Pashinyan and his Belarusian counterpart Aliaksandr Lukashenka.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Yousef Bardouka

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberThroughout the course of a brief, but violent, conflict between India and Pakistan that erupted over the past week, Armenia and Azerbaijan also engaged in a simultaneous proxy information war, as both Yerevan and Baku used the outbreak of violence as an opportunity to explicitly take sides.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova

Armenian authorities are taking steps to introduce new restrictions on media and freedom of speech ahead of the 2026 parliamentary elections. At the end of April, Armenia’s Justice Ministry released a series of draft legislative amendments, which, if adopted, would require media outlets — as well as individual social media users — to not only publicly refute or publish a response to insulting or defamatory content, but also to remove such expressions or even the entire publication.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Yousef Bardouka |Nate Ostiller

Join the fight for free media in the Caucasus for as little as €5 and enjoy exclusive benefits from our team as a thank you. Become a memberOn Wednesday morning, Armenia’s Defence Ministry rebutted Azerbaijani allegations that the Armenian Armed Forces had violated the ceasefire the night prior.

3 weeks ago | oc-media.org | Aytan Farhadova |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Elizaveta Chukharova

Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberImprisoned Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu has ended his hunger strike after 40 days following a stream of reports warning of his deteriorating health condition.