Central Europe Slovakia has imposed a strict lockdown, including a curfew, as it is struggling to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The government...
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The Armenian government is caught between a rock and a hard place as it tries to mediate between environmental activists and an international mining company. Last year...
The two former Soviet republics of Armenia and Moldova have a lot in common: since independence, both have been involved in armed conflict, and both have regularly seen...
Armenia’s embattled prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, managed to overcome the fallout of a disastrous defeat in last year’s war with Azerbaijan to win a landslide victory...
Armenians vote in a snap parliamentary election on June 20, two years ahead of schedule. The country’s future direction is in the balance. Last November’s...
Current events in Belarus could be leading to an outcome similar to that of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia rather than the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in...
Unmoved by the largest protests in the history of independent Belarus, the country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko refuses to budge. Still supported by a majority within...
The question of whether the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine and the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia produced significant reforms, goes into determining their...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has told the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly (PACE) that the country is now unequivocally democratic...
None of emerging Europe’s 23 countries currently qualifies as a full democracy. The news comes from the latest edition of the Democracy Index, an annual report...
The My Step Alliance, which includes the Civil Contract party of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, has won a resounding victory in Armenia’s parliamentary election...
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashynian resigned on October 16 in order to force an early parliamentary election. Announcing his decision, Mr Pashinyan said that the...