The parents of Armenian soldiers killed in the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh again rallied outside prosecutors’ headquarters in Yerevan on Wednesday to demand criminal charges against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Thursday criticized Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and warned him against helping Azerbaijan regain control over the Armenian-populated territory.
Military authorities in Yerevan denied on Tuesday that Baku has taken control of more sovereign Armenian territory in the southeast of the country despite reports by locals about advancements of the Azerbaijani army in recent days.
Azerbaijani forces continued to shell a village in eastern Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday, wounding one of its residents and causing others to flee their homes.
Officials in Stepanakert on Wednesday accused Azerbaijan of obstructing repairs on the sole pipeline that supplies natural gas to Nagorno-Karabakh.
One Armenian soldier was killed and another wounded on Monday in a ceasefire violation reported from Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
The Armenian government has not done enough to fortify the country’s long border with Azerbaijan, opposition lawmakers claimed on Wednesday after three Armenian soldiers were killed in fresh skirmishes with Azerbaijani troops.
Police cordoned off the municipal administration building in Vartenis on Tuesday to prevent a local opposition figure from taking over as mayor of the eastern Armenian town and nearby villages.
Human rights campaigners on Friday accused the Armenian authorities of resorting to arrests and intimidation to gain control of communities where the ruling Civil Contract party failed to prevail in this month’s local elections.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian sparked uproar and faced calls to resign on Tuesday after a video emerged of him making disparaging comments about Armenian soldiers captured by Azerbaijan.
The U.S. State Department has condemned the killing of an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh committed just outside the Azerbaijani-controlled town of Shushi (Shusha) on Monday.
Armenia reported a record 2,603 coronavirus cases and hundreds of its unvaccinated citizens awaited hospitalization on Thursday as health authorities struggled to cope with a new wave of infections in the country of about 3 million.
Armenian border guards have reportedly begun escorting Armenian vehicles driving along an Azerbaijani-controlled section of the main highway that connects Armenia to Iran.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian reacted cautiously on Wednesday to Baku’s decision to check and tax Iranian vehicles using a strategic road that passes through border areas along southeastern Armenia controversially handed over to Azerbaijan after last year’s war.
Armenian officials have accused Azerbaijani troops of starting wildfires near two border villages in Armenia’s Gegharkunik province to inflict more damage on local farmers.
The army officers responsible for the latest incident in the ranks in which three conscripts were allegedly killed by their fellow serviceman will suffer consequences, the Armenian Ministry of Defense said on Friday.
The U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, Lynne Tracy, visited on Monday one of the volatile sections of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan where troops from the two warring states have increasingly exchanged fire in recent weeks.
One Azerbaijani soldier was reportedly killed and three Armenian servicemen wounded on Friday in fresh skirmishes that broke out along Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan.
The mayor of an Armenian village bordering Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave was wounded on Monday night as a result of fresh shootouts between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops stationed at the border section.
Law-enforcement authorities have arrested the heads of two more communities of Armenia’s southeastern Syunik province in a continuing crackdown on local leaders and supporters of the main opposition Hayastan alliance.
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