Artak Khulian

Jan 16, 2025 | azatutyun.am | Artak Khulian

Police data released by her shows that the total number of such crimes rose from 94 in 2023 to 109 in 2024. They soared by 40 percent in 2023. “The 15 more cases may seem a lot, but crimes committed with firearms account for only 0.3 percent of our overall crime statistics,” Sargsian told a news conference.

Jan 15, 2025 | azatutyun.am | Artak Khulian

Aliyev threatened last week to put an end to “fascism” in Armenia and to forcibly open a land corridor through Armenia’s strategic Syunik region to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave. Critics of the Armenian government have portrayed his statement as a further indication that Baku is gearing up for a large-scale invasion of Armenia. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has likewise suggested that Aliyev may be preparing the ground for “unhindered aggression” against his country.

Jan 10, 2025 | azatutyun.am | Artak Khulian

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said late on Thursday that possible accession to the EU is “incompatible” with Armenia’s continued membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-led trade bloc that gives it tariff-free access to Russia’s vast market. The South Caucasus nation would also have to pay much more for Russian energy resources and food, he said.

Jan 9, 2025 | azatutyun.am | Artak Khulian

The government backed a bill on the “start of a process of Armenia's accession to the European Union” drafted by several pro-Western political and civic groups. Those groups largely loyal to Pashinian collected last year 60,000 signatures in support of their demands for a referendum on joining the EU. Armenian law requires the country’s parliament to formally debate the resulting bill.

Jan 8, 2025 | azatutyun.am | Artak Khulian

The Armenian government said on Wednesday that it has told a private entertainment company to return almost $6 million in government funding it received in 2023 to organize U.S. rapper Snoop Dogg’s concert in Yerevan that never took place. The concert was originally scheduled for September 23, 2023. It was cancelled two days after Azerbaijan launched on September 19, 2023 a military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh that forced the region’s entire population to flee to Armenia.