Twenty-two residents of Nagorno-Karabakh are still missing one year after a powerful explosion at a fuel depot outside Stepanakert which occurred during the mass exodus of the region’s ethnic Armenian population triggered by an Azerbaijani military offensive.
The mayor of the southeastern Armenian town of Goris again made clear on Tuesday that he will not resign despite risking arrest for defying a court ruling that bars him from holding public office.
Azerbaijan has withdrawn its military post from one section of the recently demarcated border with Armenia, according to the mayor of a local Armenian village who spoke to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday.
Armenian authorities have brought criminal charges against four more opposition supporters in connection with the June 12 clashes in Yerevan between riot police and protesters demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian defended on Wednesday police officers that tried to physically stop Catholicos Garegin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, from visiting a key national memorial on Tuesday.
The pro-government majority in the Armenian parliament rejected on Tuesday an opposition initiative to debate Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s territorial concessions to Azerbaijan that have sparked angry protests across Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met on Monday with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province that has been the epicenter of continuing protests against his decision to make territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government began handing over border areas to Azerbaijan on Tuesday amid continuing protests staged by residents of adjacent communities in Armenia’s northern Tavush province concerned about their security.
Residents of several Armenian communities in the northeastern Tavush province began protests late on Friday after the authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a border delimitation deal under which Baku will regain control of four formerly Azeri-populated villages in the area.
Azerbaijan appears to have started demolishing a building in Stepanakert that housed Nagorno-Karabakh’s parliament for almost two decades.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s main political factions have rejected as inadequate the Armenian government’s new plan to help Karabakh refugees obtain permanent housing in Armenia.
An Azerbaijani soldier was detained early on Wednesday after crossing into Armenia for unclear reasons.
One day after being relieved of her duties, an Armenian deputy minister of economy was reportedly detained on Wednesday in a corruption investigation launched by law-enforcement authorities.
Azerbaijan dismissed on Friday Armenia’s decision to provide it with more maps of Armenian minefields in and around Nagorno-Karabakh made in response to Azerbaijani demands for such information.
None of the families of at least 198 Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers killed during the last Azerbaijani military offensive has received financial compensation from the Armenian government.
An Armenian soldier serving on the border with Azerbaijan was shot dead on Monday in what official Yerevan described as an Azerbaijani ceasefire violation aimed at torpedoing peace talks.
In an apparent about-face, the Armenian government has assured refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh that it will pay pensions and other benefits received by them until their exodus to Armenia.
At least 64 people died during last month’s mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population resulting from an Azerbaijani military offensive, an Armenian law-enforcement agency said on Monday.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Wednesday that his government does not regard refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh’s as Armenian citizens despite the fact that virtually all of them hold Armenian passports.
Samvel Shahramanian, the exiled president of Nagorno-Karabakh, appeared to backtrack on his decision to dissolve the unrecognized republic as he was confronted by angry Karabakh refugees in Yerevan on Friday.
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