Armenia’s human rights ombudswoman on Thursday accused Azerbaijani troops of committing war crimes during last month’s offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh that led to the mass exodus of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ignoring stern warnings from Russia, Armenia’s parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the founding treaty of an international court that issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March.
The Azerbaijani government publicized on Monday a plan to “reintegrate” Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian residents one day after the end of their mass exodus to Armenia that left Karabakh almost completely depopulated.
In what Russia called an “extremely hostile” move, Armenia’s leadership on Thursday took another step towards accepting jurisdiction of an international court that issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March.
Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian-born billionaire businessman who held the second-highest post in Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership until February, was arrested by Azerbaijani authorities on Wednesday while fleeing the region along with thousands of Karabakh Armenians.
Police in Yerevan arrested on Friday morning at least 84 more people participating in protests demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian resign because of his failure to defend Nagorno-Karabakh against Azerbaijani attacks.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s representatives met with Azerbaijani officials on Thursday for first talks envisaged by a Russian-brokered agreement to stop Azerbaijan’s latest military offensive in Karabakh launched on Tuesday.
Angry protesters clashed with riot police outside the main government building in Yerevan for the second consecutive night on Wednesday as they continued to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation over his handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Humanitarian traffic through the Lachin corridor was not restored on Wednesday, with Azerbaijan accusing Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership of continuing to oppose an alternative Azerbaijani-controlled supply route.
Armenia is providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion of the country, sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Tuesday.
Russia continued to round on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Tuesday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisting that Moscow will remain a key player in the South Caucasus and Armenia in particular.
A court in Yerevan on Wednesday again refused to release Davit Tonoyan, a former Armenian defense minister facing corruption charges, from custody pending a verdict in his long-running trial.
An Armenian soldier reportedly shot dead a comrade before taking his own life while on combat duty on Sunday, adding to the growing number of noncombat deaths in the Armenian army’s ranks.
A former political ally of Arayik Harutiunian has accused Nagorno-Karabakh’s president of reneging on his pledge to resign.
De facto ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh believe that agreeing to the opening of an “alternative road” from Azerbaijan would legitimize the current blockade of the Lachin Corridor and cut the region from Armenia.
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have reported the first death from hunger in the region that has been cut off from all commercial and humanitarian supplies for weeks due to a de facto blockade imposed by Azerbaijan.
Former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan was allowed to testify before Armenian pro-government lawmakers on Tuesday despite being held in detention and standing trial on corruption charges strongly denied by him.
Azerbaijani security forces arrested a seriously ill resident of Nagorno-Karabakh as he was being evacuated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Armenia on Saturday.
Official Yerevan has denied Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s implicit claim that he discussed with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts the possible return of ethnic Azerbaijanis who had fled Soviet Armenia in the late 1980s.
An opposition lawmaker has asked a court in Yerevan to reinstate her as chairwoman of the Armenian parliament’s standing committee on human rights.
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