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.
The government formally decided on Thursday to allocate 30 billion drams ($75 million) for the housing needs of tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians who have taken refuge in Armenia since last month’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
An ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh went on trial in Baku on Friday two and a half months after being arrested by Azerbaijani security forces during his aborted medical evacuation to Armenia.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian touted his government’s handling of the massive influx of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday even as at least 1,700 of them continued to live in kindergartens, schools and other buildings hastily converted into shelters.
Azerbaijani authorities reportedly arrested three former presidents of Nagorno-Karabakh and the current speaker of the local legislature on Tuesday as they continued their takeover of the depopulated region.
Tens of thousands more residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia on Wednesday in a continuing exodus of the region’s population triggered by last week’s Azerbaijani military offensive.
The United States and the European Union pledged on Tuesday to provide urgent humanitarian aid to ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fleeing to Armenia in droves amid the ongoing restoration of Azerbaijani control over the region.
Thousands of ethnic Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh fled to Armenia overnight and on Monday one week after an Azerbaijani military offensive that will lead to the restoration of Baku’s full control over the region.
The Armenian government is making contingency plans for a mass exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population to Armenia following the latest Azerbaijani offensive in the region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Friday.
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