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Armenia today: the essentials

Armenia today: the essentials, 10 November 2026

By · Founder and editor-in-chief

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Archive photo: two men in dark suits shake hands and smile in front of a blue and white backdrop bearing the Paris Peace Forum logo; an Armenian flag on the left, French and European flags on the right. Bottom right, the mark of the Armenian government press office.
Nikol Pashinyan and Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the second Paris Peace Forum, 12 November 2019 (archive photo). Photo: The Office to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia / CC BY-ND 3.0

What matters today in Armenia and the diaspora, in a few lines. Each item links to our full story.

  1. Pashinyan at the Paris Peace Forum, then Antalya: the CSTO summit in Moscow will go ahead without him

    Nikol Pashinyan is attending the ninth Paris Peace Forum at the Palais de Chaillot on Tuesday, 10 November. Read the story →

  2. Stepanavan: Strong Armenia candidate Arsen Gevorgyan dies in pre-trial detention at Nubarashen prison

    Arsen Gevorgyan, who headed the opposition Strong Armenia party’s list in the 25 October local elections in Stepanavan, in Lori province, died on the morning of Tuesday, 10 November, at Nubarashen prison in Yerevan, where he was being held in pre-trial… Read the story →

  3. Armenia to open an embassy in Tallinn as Ararat Mirzoyan receives Estonia’s Cross of Merit

    Armenia will open a resident embassy in Tallinn “in the coming months”, Foreign and International Trade Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced in the Estonian capital on Monday, 9 November. Read the story →

  4. Tourism: over 2 million visits to Armenia from January to October 2026, October up 34%

    Armenia recorded 2,043,531 tourist visits from January to October 2026, according to figures released by the Tourism Committee on 10 November. Read the story →

  5. Global Armenian Summit: some 160 participants from France adopt a “Yerevan Declaration”

    Nearly 160 participants from France took part in the third Global Armenian Summit, held in Yerevan from 5 to 8 November: the second-largest delegation at this edition. Read the story →

  6. Record number of Russians travel to Armenia: 402,300 in the third quarter of 2026, Russian border data show

    Between July and September 2026, 402,300 Russian citizens left Russia for Armenia, according to statistics from the FSB Border Service highlighted on 9 November by the independent Russian outlet Verstka. Read the story →

  7. Ferdowsi’s “Book of Kings” in Armenian prose: tribute to Loris Tjeknavorian at Yerevan’s Blue Mosque

    The first complete Armenian prose translation of the Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), the epic by Persian poet Ferdowsi, was presented on Monday, 9 November, at Yerevan’s Blue Mosque. Read the story →