Yerevan’s planned metro expansion will require an estimated $287 million in investment, up sharply from an initial $50 million projection in 2022, senior City Hall official Anetta Babayan announced Monday.
France's Europe Minister: Armenia doesn't have to choose between EU and Russia
🇫🇷 Today, France’s Minister Delegate for European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, visited CivilNet. He was accompanied by Ambassador Olivier Decottignies.
👉 The full interview with the minister will follow soon.
Russia may restrict the ability of the Proshyan Brandy Factory, one of Armenia’s biggest producers, to do business in the country. Brandy is one of Armenia’s main exports.
Major global travel platforms are profiting from Azerbaijani government-sanctioned tours to Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that was ethnically cleansed just two years ago.
The film, Our Path to Independence, directed by Tigran Paskevichyan and produced on commission by Public Television of Armenia, will not be publicly screened in any format following the ruling.
A Yerevan court has banned the screening and distribution of a film about Armenia’s independence movement, siding with a lawsuit filed by the country’s public broadcaster.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s subway ride in Yerevan on Sunday escalated into a shouting match as he yelled at a fellow rider who had been displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.
On March 11, Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), submitted her resignation and was dismissed from her position.
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During her visit to Yerevan, Marta Kos, the European Union's Commissioner for Enlargement, answered CivilNet's questions about its Hybrid Threat Rapid Response Team being sent to Yerevan in preparation for June's parliamentary elections.
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A fake video circulating on X, published on March 10, 2026, claims that “a group of Armenian political strategists secretly arrived in France before the municipal elections to gain experience in vote manipulation”, as part of a “secret agreement” between Macron and Pashinyan.
Palgrave Macmillan has published Hrair Balian’s substantial volume Anatomy of Peacemaking: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Missed Opportunities. Newmag is expected to release the Armenian edition of the book soon.
More than two dozen genocide scholars from universities and research institutions in the United States and Europe issued a joint statement on Friday calling on the Armenian government to reinstate Edita Gzoyan․
At the Agarak checkpoint on the Armenia–Iran border, CivilNet speaks with refugees crossing from Iran as the war continues. Many Iranians are reluctant to speak on camera, fearing that any incautious remark could be seen as disloyal by the Iranian authorities.
War in Iran could raise prices, increase transport costs and disrupt supply chains in Armenia, while also creating limited economic opportunities if capital and labor shift toward relatively stable countries in the region.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan believes that the breakdown of political dialogue between Georgia and the European Union poses a serious challenge for Armenia’s integration with the bloc. He made the remarks in a speech before the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Armenia’s Foreign Intelligence Service issued a statement on Tuesday saying Armenian citizens and ethnic Armenians in an unnamed foreign country are being pressured to support certain political forces ahead of the Armenian parliamentary elections scheduled for June.
A drone strike on Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave has raised tensions between Tehran and Baku and sparked talk of a new war.
The Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform has highlighted the criminal charges against two detained Armenian podcasters in its annual press freedom report published on Tuesday.
On Insights, Eric Hacopian examines the electoral stakes at home, the geopolitical risks abroad, and how both could reshape Armenia’s political future.
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As agreed during U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Yerevan earlier this month, Armenia plans to invest up to $9 billion in American-built small modular reactors (SMRs) to replace its aging Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant.
On the night of December 31, 2023, an unprecedented New Year’s fireworks display lit up Republic Square in Yerevan. Just two months earlier, more than 100,000 people had been forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia has deported a Russian citizen of Chechen origin who was detained earlier this month for threatening to kill his daughter. Human rights defender Artur Sakunts told CivilNet on Monday that the man has also been barred from re-entering Armenia.
In January 2025 in Baku, Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli gave an almost two-hour interview to well-known South Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal and literary translator Katherine E. Young. The recording is being published only a year later.
After decades of sourcing most of its weapons from the Soviet Union and later Russia, India has nearly tripled its domestic arms production since 2013 as part of a push to turn itself into a global defence supplier.
On his final day on his historic visit to Yerevan, US Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha visited the Armenian Genocide Museum. The visit on Tuesday was followed up with a post on the Vice President’s X account.
JD Vance will bring up the Armenian prisoners with Aliyev #shorts
Armenia aims to become a global hub for artificial intelligence with the launch of Phase Two of a massive AI supercomputing project, the U.S.-based AI cloud and infrastructure company Firebird announced Tuesday in a press release provided to CivilNet.
