Robert Zargarian is a reporter for RFE/RL's Armenian Service in Yerevan.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with residents in the village of Kirants on May 25 as part of his trip to several border communities involved in a controversial demarcation process that will see Azerbaijan regain control over the area. Locals fear they could lose everything.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian visited the northeastern province of Tavush on May 25 to meet with residents of several border communities where a controversial demarcation process with Azerbaijan was completed earlier this month.
Villagers in the Armenian village of Kirants on the border with Azerbaijan have expressed anger after a meeting with the local provincial governor of Tavush was held behind closed doors. Many locals are angry with a border deal under which four abandoned villages will return to Azerbaijani control.
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.
Dozens of residents blocked the road outside the Armenian village of Kirants, near the border with Azerbaijan, on April 20, a day after a border deal between the two countries was announced. The protesters voiced their distrust of Armenian authorities.
The vibration of a reed that grows around the Nagorno-Karabakh region has provided the sound of Armenia’s duduk, a wind instrument, for centuries. Azerbaijan’s military takeover of the territory means duduk makers are now looking to Europe for reeds, but some fear the sound might change forever.
Workers at Armenia's largest textile producer are facing massive layoffs or deep wage cuts largely linked to the country's national currency, the dram, which has risen dramatically since Ukraine was invaded by Russia, Armenia's largest trading partner.
After police searched the apartment of a woman protesting a Yerevan property development, locals say hopes of change after the 2018 revolution are fading.
