An Israeli religious freedom advocate is pressing Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon to address repeated incidents of spitting at Christians and Christian holy sites, saying the city has failed to respond to a problem that has drawn growing international attention. Yisca Harani, director of the Hotline for Documenting Harassment of Christians at the Religious Freedom Data Center, raised the issue in a letter to the Jerusalem Municipality’s spokesperson’s office. Jerusalem-based Armenian journalist...

Belarus has banned the import and sale of an Armenian brandy after regulators said laboratory tests found it did not meet required standards, a move that comes as relations between Yerevan and Minsk remain strained following a bitter dispute between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The ban covers the eight-year-old “Yerevan 2800” brandy produced by MAP CJSC in Armenia’s Armavir region. Belarus’ State Committee for Standardization classified the...

The Azerbaijani court that sentenced Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison tied him to killings, military operations and other events stretching back to the late 1980s, including incidents that occurred years before he moved to Nagorno-Karabakh, according to an Armenian human rights lawyer who reviewed the case. Siranush Sahakyan, who represents the interests of Armenian prisoners before the European Court of Human Rights, detailed portions of the case Friday during a news conference in...