The U.S. and Armenian militaries began on Monday a joint military exercise in Armenia strongly criticized by Russia, the South Caucasus nation’s longtime ally.
An Armenian journalist working for the Russian news agency Sputnik and a pro-Russian blogger are among seven persons arrested in Armenia on suspicion of illegal arms possession and trafficking.
Russia continued to criticize on Thursday Armenia’s decision to host a joint U.S.-Armenian military exercise later this month.
Azerbaijani troops have reportedly opened fire at the civilian airport of Kapan for the third time since the recent start of commercial flights between the Armenian border town and Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Tuesday dismissed an Azerbaijani proposal to provide the Armenian-populated region with food that has been in short supply due to Baku’s eight-month blockade of the Lachin corridor.
Three residents of Nagorno-Karabakh were detained by Azerbaijani security forces on Monday while traveling to Armenia through the Lachin corridor.
An Armenian airline began regular commercial flights to Kapan on Monday after what Armenian officials described as cross-border gunfire from Azerbaijan targeting the border town’s airport.
Citing an unnamed state official, Russia’s leading daily, Kommersant, wrote on Friday that Moscow had proposed ending the current situation with the blocked access to Nagorno-Karabakh by opening both the Agdam and Lachin roads.
Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to withdraw from the statement made in Prague last year, by which Baku and Yerevan recognized each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty based on the declaration signed in Almaty in 1991.
A group of Armenian war veterans threatening to “take matters into their own hands” unless authorities make efforts to swiftly end the Azerbaijani blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh have claimed more obstruction from police after arriving in the south of Armenia.
An opposition figure representing a nationalist party with links across the far-flung Armenian diaspora has been elected parliament speaker in Nagorno-Karabakh, fueling speculation about a possible shift in local politics largely influenced by Azerbaijan’s blockade of the region in recent weeks.
The Russian peacekeeping force deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh has declined to provide security to participants in a local protest planning a trip to an Azerbaijani checkpoint at the Lachin corridor to try to break what authorities in Stepanakert view as an illegal blockade of the region.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s population is increasingly suffering from malnutrition and facing the imminent threat of starvation because of Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor, an official in Stepanakert said on Wednesday.
A U.S. special envoy for Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations will visit Yerevan and Baku again this week amid the worsening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh which seems to be prompting growing concern in Washington.
Former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has again denounced Nikol Pashinian’s policy on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that the Armenian prime minister has no legal or moral right to agree to Azerbaijani control over Karabakh.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian expressed hope on Thursday that he and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev will move closer to a peace treaty between their countries at their next meeting slated for Saturday.
The Armenian opposition accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian of dealing another blow to pluralism and democracy on Tuesday after his party ousted the last remaining opposition head of a standing parliament committee.
Nagorno-Karabakh will continue to reject Azerbaijan’s demands to disband its armed forces, a senior Karabakh official said on Thursday.
The Armenian police have arrested a young man who allegedly called Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian a “traitor” after approaching him in a public park in Yerevan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s president said on Thursday that the Armenian-populated region will continue to assert its right to self-determination despite mounting pressure from Azerbaijan.
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