Armenia

Armenian entrepreneurs and business entities generate thousands of great ideas and sometimes only a small jump with support is needed for them to succeed and promote Armenia both locally and internationally. Regional Post talked to the grantees of the EU4Business “Innovative Tourism and Technology Development for Armenia” project co-founded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented by German Development Cooperation GIZ, who had received that small support jump for their ideas.

During the last century, both Soviet Armenia and later the newly established Republic of Armenia went through many hardships whose witness and direct participant became the building built in the place of a vineyard on a hill far from the city center, which we all know today as the National Assembly building of Armenia. Journalist Mark Grigoryan, the grandson of the author of the building and the former chief architect of Yerevan, Mark Grigoryan, sat down with YEREVAN to speak about the past and current history of the building.

Andrea Wiktorin is not new to Armenia. She was Germany’s ambassador to Armenia in 2007-2009, then she came back here in 2019 as the European Union Ambassador. Regional Post discusses with Ms. Wiktorin challenges our country has been facing since recently and the ways they can be overcome with the support of the EU.

The time in Armenia stopped on an early morning at the end of September. For 44 days straight Armenia and Artsakh were in a de facto state of war. Here're the definitive moments of the second Artsakh war.

EventToura invites everyone to beautiful Dilijan with the courage to combine art, wine and business.

Azerbaijani provocations on the Goris-Kapan highway have once again resumed, and the events of the past week shed light on these new severe provocations.

Year 2020 turned out to be quite challenging for countries all over the world, and Armenia was not an exception. According to Mihaela Stojkoska, UNDP Resident Representative of a.i. in Armenia, and Arman Valesyan, ''Integrated Rural Tourism Development'‘ and “Sustainable Communities” projects manager, the key to overcoming all the difficulties and becoming a self-sufficient entity as a country and a state is sustainability. Regional Post sat down with them to discuss these issues.

One of the biggest art events of the region is coming back after the pandemic pause.