The Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh said on Tuesday that it will deploy more soldiers in and around a local village that was occupied by Azerbaijani forces last week.
Azerbaijani forces have withdrawn from a village in Nagorno-Karabakh’s east but continue to occupy territory outside it seized by them last week, military authorities in Stepanakert said on Monday.
Ethnic Armenian authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have accused Azerbaijan of violating the line of contact in the east of the region by the advancement of its troops denied by Baku.
The Armenian government should implement a full-scale anti-crisis program to prevent irreversible economic losses, an opposition lawmaker has said.
Thousands of Russians, many of them tech professionals, have migrated to Armenia since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing tightening of Western sanctions against Moscow.
Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobian claimed on Tuesday that Russian tech companies are moving operations to Armenia to evade crippling Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff, Lieutenant-General Artak Davtian, and four other generals were dismissed on Thursday through presidential decrees initiated by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia’s two main opposition forces have described Russia’s and Azerbaijan’s pledges to act like regional allies as a serious geopolitical setback for Yerevan and blamed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s administration for it.
Azerbaijan again rejected on Thursday Armenia’s conditions for demarcating the long border between the two states where deadly skirmishes break out on a regular basis.
Former President Serzh Sarkisian has rejected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s continuing criticism of peace proposals made by the United States, Russia and France during his rule, insisting that they did not call for Azerbaijani control over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Armenian parliament voted to appoint on Monday a senior government official as the country’s new human rights defender.
Armenia’s top army general, Artak Davtian, former Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and several other men went on trial on Wednesday, accused of supplying the armed forces with faulty ammunition.
Armenia’s two leading opposition groups have spoken out against constitutional amendments planned by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, saying that they are aimed at helping him cling to power.
The Armenian government pledged to enforce on Wednesday major restrictions on cigarette sales designed to curb widespread smoking in the country.
A key committee of the Armenian parliament failed to elect its deputy chairman for the 18th consecutive time on Tuesday as its pro-government members continued to object to an opposition candidate for the post.
Former President Robert Kocharian said on Monday that it is still too early to try to topple Armenia’s government with streets protests that were promised by his opposition alliance this fall.
Turkey and Armenia have said that they will appoint soon special envoys for bilateral negotiations on normalizing their relations.
Law-enforcement authorities have brought criminal charges against five of the ten Armenian soldiers who were freed and repatriated by Azerbaijan last week.
Three aides to opposition lawmakers claimed to have been physically assaulted by pro-government deputies and staffers after arguing with some of them in the Armenian parliament building on Tuesday.
A court in Yerevan has extended the pretrial detention of Davit Tonoyan, a former defense minister facing corruption charges strongly denied by him.
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