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6 days 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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3 weeks 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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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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1 month ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
evnreport.com | Hranoush Dermoyan |Hovhannes Nazaretyan
While in Baku as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s delegation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian TV that Armenia’s leadership is “sabotaging” the agreement signed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding the unblocking of communications through the Syunik region. “It is difficult to understand the rationale behind such a position,” he said.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
evnreport.com | Hranoush Dermoyan |Hovhannes Nazaretyan
In its ongoing effort to diversify economic and political ties, the Armenian government has intensified diplomatic ties with the Arab world. The two most significant moves in this regard have been the establishment of diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia in November 2023 and Armenia’s recognition of Palestine in June 2024, which was widely welcomed by Arab states. Also noteworthy were the first-ever visits to Armenia of the presidents of and Iraq in 2023.
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May 17, 2024 | 
evnreport.com | Ani Ghulinyan |Hovhannes Nazaretyan
Your browser does not support theaudio element. On April 30, RFE/RL’s Armenian service (Azatutyun) reported, citing a European diplomatic source, that Hungary is blocking the EU’s military assistance to Armenia. Earlier, RFE/RL had reported that a “preliminary agreement” had been reached within the EU to provide €10 million to Armenia over the next two-and-a-half years to finance the establishment of a mobile field camp for a battalion-size unit.
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May 10, 2024 | 
evnreport.com | Ani Ghulinyan |Hovhannes Nazaretyan
Azerbaijan’s strategic partnership with Israel is widely acknowledged. A 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks noted that their ties are “based strongly on pragmatism” with mistrust of Iran taking center stage. The cable quoted Aliyev likening their bilateral ties to an iceberg with “nine-tenths of it is below the surface” and added that it affects U.S. policy as Azerbaijan has convinced the pro-Israel lobby there to advocate on its behalf.
