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1 week ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
A chain of events involving Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan is escalating tensions amid a volatile mix of politics, religion and foreign influence, and could potentially lead to the nationalization of Armenia’s national power grid.
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1 week ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
As Armenia recalibrates its foreign policy and distances itself from its traditional reliance on Russia in recent years, it has sought to broaden its strategic horizons. While deepening ties with the West, especially France and the United States, Yerevan is also engaging with non-Western actors, especially India and Iran to diversify its diplomatic and security relationships. Ongoing efforts include intensifying ties with the Arab world and Central Asia, among other neighboring regions.
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1 month ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
The Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) recently released its 2024 Caucasus Barometer survey, conducted between July 27 and October 10 last year among 1,561 Armenian adults. It is a household survey about social-economic issues and political attitudes that has been conducted in Armenia regularly since 2008. The previous one was carried out in late 2021 and early 2022.
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2 months ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
The Armenian Genocide, deeply embedded in the national psyche and collective identity, has naturally shaped Armenian political discourse. The country’s foreign policy regarding the issue of the genocide, especially its international recognition, has varied from one administration to the other, reflecting the complexity of balancing historical justice with geopolitical pragmatism.
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2 months ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
The statues and monuments a city, especially a capital, puts in its public spaces are not just works of art, but reflect the taste and politics of those periods when they were placed. Yerevan’s numerous statues serve as a living historical archive, chronicling its political transformation from a small provincial town to a large national capital.
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2 months ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan
On March 26, Armenia’s parliament passed a bill formally declaring the country’s intent to begin the process of joining the European Union. The measure was approved exclusively by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s ruling Civil Contract party, while opposition factions led by former presidents Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan either voted against it or abstained. Parliament speaker Alen Simonyan and Aram Sargsyan, leader of the pro-Western Republic Party, both hailed it as historic.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan
On March 13, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov made a surprise announcement when he told reporters in Baku that Armenia and Azerbaijan have completed negotiations on finalizing the text of a peace agreement. He said Yerevan has accepted Baku’s proposals regarding the last two disputed points of the agreement.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
In its 2025 Annual Geopolitical Forecast, the American security analysis firm Stratfor suggested that “Armenia’s efforts to secure strong support from the United States will be thwarted as the Trump administration prioritizes strong relations with Baku as a regional counterbalance to Russian, Iranian and Chinese regional influence.” This is despite Baku’s increasingly closer ties with Russia and China, with which it has signed allied and strategic partnership agreements in 2022 and 2024,...
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan
Your browser does not support theaudio element. In August 2017, when construction broke ground for a large Chinese embassy complex in Yerevan, China’s Assistant Foreign Minister Li Huilai spoke of “unprecedentedly high-level relations and friendship” between the two countries. The size of the new embassy, the second-largest Chinese mission in the former Soviet Union, did suggest a positive trajectory at the time.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan
ArmStat, Armenia’s statistics agency recently released its annual report on a number of socio-economic metrics. Following two years of strong economic growth, the economy expanded further, albeit at a slower pace. Foreign trade soared, while inflation and the exchange rate with the U.S. dollar remained stable. In line with global trends, birth rates declined significantly.
