Russia’s new migration policy leaves Armenian truckers struggling

• Armenian freight companies are facing mounting difficulties as Russia’s new migration regulations have led to entry bans for dozens of long-haul drivers.
  • Yerevan celebrated its 2,807th birthday.
  • Armenian airport operator announces $500M expansion: THIS WEEK IN BUSINESS

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Armenia establishes European integration department

• Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharyan has confirmed that his political team will take part in the 2026 parliamentary elections.
  • The government has established a new department within its foreign ministry dedicated to European integration.

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Turkish Armenian economist Daron Acemoglu wins Nobel Prize

• Turkey’s Infrastructure Minister said a proposed transport link connecting mainland Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave could pass either through Iran or Armenia.
  • Turkish Armenian economist Daron Acemoglu, together with fellow researchers Simon Johnson and James Robinson, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
  • Armenia’s football federation sacked the head coach of the country’s national team Oleksandr Petrakov following poor performances in the UEFA Nations League.
  • Experimental Sounds of the “Nopa” Sound Art Festival in Yerevan.

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Armenian, Azerbaijan confirm meeting of Foreign Ministers in Washington

• USAID chief Samantha Power arrived in Yerevan for meetings with senior officials, as well as with Armenians forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh last year.
  • The top diplomats of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet today on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington.
  • The United States will seize a Los Angeles mansion belonging to the family of former Armenian official Gagik Khachatryan and may transfer some of the proceeds of the property’s future sale to the Armenian government, the Justice Department said.
  • Interview with Léa Hakim, senior country economist for Armenia at the World Bank: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUD0hckgUFY>

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At least 64 reported dead during mass Karabakh exodus

• At least 64 people died on the road during last month’s mass exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Armenia’s Investigative Committee.
  • Armenia plans to demolish and completely rebuild its checkpoint on the border with Iran.
  • Nagorno-Karabakh President Samvel Shahramanyan gave his first interview since the region’s fall to Azerbaijan last month.

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BREAKING: At least 2 dead as Azerbaijan launches major attack on Karabakh

Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh around 1 p.m. Tuesday, authorities in Stepanakert announced. There are at least two dead and 11 injured, including children.

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Armenia launches flights between Yerevan and Syunik

• Armenia launched passenger flights between Yerevan and Syunik, just days after Azerbaijan opened fire at the long-closed airport in the town of Kapan.
  • Russian peacekeepers evacuated 41 people from Karabakh to Armenia, the first time Azerbaijan has allowed Russia to use the Lachin corridor in more than two months.
  • This year’s Pan-Armenian Games closed after two weeks of competition featuring thousands of athletes from dozens of countries around the world.

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Karabakh president confirms Baku rejected direct talks

• Nagorno-Karabakh President Arayik Harutyunyan confirmed Baku pulled out of a planned meeting with Stepanakert in Europe earlier this month.
  • Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s former foreign minister, called on Armenia to base its negotiating position on the fact of Nagorno-Karabakh’s former autonomy within Soviet Azerbaijan.
  • Gyumri, Armenia’s second city, is anticipating an influx of more than 11,000 visitors as the city hosts this year’s Pan-Armenian Games for the first time.

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Half of Armenian citizens oppose normalizing relations with Turkey, new poll says

• 57% of Armenians oppose normalizing relations with Turkey, according to a new poll.
  • The Nagorno-Karabakh parliament calls on the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, a body set up to find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to take steps to resume the negotiation process with Azerbaijan.
  • Hungarian budget airline Wizz Air will launch flights from Yerevan to Rome and Larnaca in June 2022.

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Kocharyan gives his support for Armenia to join Russian-led “union state”

• Former President Robert Kocharyan makes the claim during a press conference that Armenia is moving from the Russian to Turkish sphere of influence.
  • Kocharyan furthermore gives his support for Armenia to join a Russian-led supranational union state.
  • Specialists will begin conducting feasibility studies on restoring one of Armenia’s two shuttered rail connections with Azerbaijan.

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