Karen Chilingaryan is a freelance cameraman based in Yerevan.
Rains have swollen rivers in the Armenian provinces of Lori and Tavush, killing at least four people in the country's worst flooding in decades. A bridge in the town of Alaverdi has collapsed. On May 26, RFE/RL filmed rescuers using improvised cables to transport items between the riverbanks.
Armenian protesters scuffled with the police on April 26. Emotions got heated in the village of Kirants as the protesters tried to stop an unmarked vehicle, believing that it was transporting Azerbaijani cartographers due to work on the demarcation agreed between the two countries on April 19.
Six researchers are spending a month living in enclosed quarters, growing their own food, and testing space suits -- all in an arid part of southern Armenia. Austrian and Armenian scientists chose the site for its geologic similarities to Mars for this test-run of extraterrestrial living conditions.
