YEREVAN popularity and YEREVAN trends

Headline Title:  ‘Virulent’ homophobic attacks put South Caucasus activists at risk 18 May 2012 Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan must do more to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, Amnesty International said after a spate of attacks on acti...

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -- President Serge Sarkisian's party has won a majority of seats in a parliamentary election seen as a test of support ahead of next year's presidential vote....

YEREVAN (Reuters) - President Serzh Sarksyan's Republican Party will keep its grip on power after a parliamentary election in Armenia on Sunday, an exit poll showed after voting ended in the South Caucasus country.

144 people were burned at a political rally in the Armenian capital of Yerevan last Friday when bunches of hydrogen balloons bearing political slogans burst into flames. An Agence France-Presse story without a byline reports: “The balloons exploded and caught fire after people holding the bunches released them from their hands into the air,” a [...]

Scores of people were hurt in Yerevan, the capital, on Friday when gas-filled balloons exploded in a huge ball of flames at a campaign rally for Armenia’s Republican Party.

Scores of people have been injured in the Armenian capital Yerevan after clusters of gas balloons exploded at a political rally.

Explosion of balloons at political event in Yerevan leads to 104 people suffering burns.

YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia has decided to pull out of the 2012 Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan, its state broadcaster said on Wednesday, underscoring tensions over a disputed enclave. Armenian-backed forces wrested Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Armenian-populated enclave inside Azerbaijan, from Azeri control after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A ceasefire was reached in 1994 after a con...

YEREVAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a visit to Armenia on Friday that saw the Islamic republic and its small Christian neighbour sign a series of agreements to boost ties. A joint statement by Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian said that the two politically isolated countries planned to step up cooperation. "The presidents expressed their determinati...