Almost one month after Azerbaijan blocked the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, the authorities in Stepanakert decided on Monday to limit the sale of some basic foodstuffs and other items increasingly in short supply.
The Armenian Ministry of Justice has drafted legislation that would empower authorities to block access to news websites and social media in times of war.
Shops and markets in Nagorno-Karabakh have run out of key foodstuffs imported from or through Armenia more than one week after Azerbaijan effectively cut off the region from the outside world.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Tuesday called on the international community to pressure Azerbaijan to reopen the sole road connecting the region to Armenia.
The Armenian parliament on Wednesday rejected a draft resolution condemning the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, allegedly objecting to its reference to the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination.
The United States has expressed serious concern over the reported disruption of natural gas supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh which followed the closure of the sole road connecting it to Armenia.
More than two years after a ban imposed by the European Union, airlines registered in Armenia are still not allowed to carry out flights to EU member states.
The Turkish government has confirmed that officials from Turkey and Armenia met at the closed border between the two states in early November to discuss practical modalities of its planned partial opening.
Three more lawmakers representing the main opposition Hayastan alliance have resigned from the National Assembly, objecting to the bloc’s decision to end a seven-month boycott of sessions of the Armenian parliament.
A senior Armenian lawmaker on Monday dismissed as insignificant assistance which the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has offered Armenia over its border dispute with Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Friday that he has cancelled upcoming fresh talks with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian because the latter wants French President Emmanuel Macron to also attend them.
Hundreds of Armenian civil society activists as well as a group of Ukrainians and Russians staged a protest in central Yerevan on Wednesday against a summit of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) hosted by Armenia and attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
De facto ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have dismissed reports that appeared in Azerbaijan over the weekend about arms deliveries carried out to the region by Russian peacekeepers stationed there under the terms of a 2020 ceasefire deal between Moscow, Yerevan and Baku.
Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian billionaire, warned of a “tough road” ahead for Nagorno-Karabakh as he formally took up the second-highest post in its leadership on Friday.
Armenia’s export-oriented technology sector is suffering mounting losses and could shrink soon because of a significant strengthening of the national currency, the dram, some of its top executives warned on Wednesday.
Civilian monitors deployed to Armenia by the European Union began patrolling on Thursday the country’s volatile border with Azerbaijan which saw large-scale fighting last month.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Wednesday that he will fly to the Russian city of Sochi on October 31 to hold fresh talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that will be hosted by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
The Armenian authorities have effectively banned Konstantin Zatulin, a pro-Armenian Russian parliamentarian, from entering the country over his strong criticism of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly trying to host a fresh meeting of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan following a series of Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks organized by Western powers.
The leaders of Russia and other ex-Soviet states making up the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) agreed late on Tuesday to send a fact-finding delegation to Armenia during an emergency video summit initiated by Yerevan.
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