France, May 25 -- The new service will produce content exclusively in Eastern Armenian, the official language of the Republic of Armenia, and will prioritise social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

"Armenian youth, like most young people in the world today, are ultra-connected. Traditional media have been abandoned. So if we want to reach that audience, we have to go through social media," said Astrig Agopian, the desk's editor-in-chief.

The team's primary aim is to inform, narrate the news and verify facts through innovative formats, drawing on correspondents based in-country.

Reporter Lilit Shahverdyan, originally from Nagorno-Karabakh, will be deployed to Armenia from the end of May to cover the country's up...