Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian-born billionaire businessman who held the second-highest post in Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership until February, was arrested by Azerbaijani authorities on Wednesday while fleeing the region along with thousands of Karabakh Armenians.
The ruling Civil Contract party has denied growing reports that it is forcing public sector employees in Yerevan to attend election campaign rallies of its mayoral candidate Tigran Avinian.
The ruling Civil Contract party expects to score a landslide victory in the upcoming municipal elections in Yerevan, its mayoral candidate, Tigran Avinian, said on Thursday.
Azerbaijan remains reluctant to recognize Armenia’s borders despite progress made in talks on an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty, according to a senior official in Yerevan.
Thousands of people rallied in Stepanakert on Friday in what local officials described as the start of daily protests against Azerbaijan’s seven-month blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh and a worsening humanitarian crisis caused by it.
Opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Wednesday of again misleading the public to try to dodge responsibility for Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk has shed light on remaining differences between Armenia and Azerbaijan that hamper the opening of their border to commercial traffic.
Azerbaijan may be preparing the ground for another upsurge in violence, a senior Nagorno-Karabakh official said on Friday, pointing to increased ceasefire violations reported from the Karabakh conflict zone in recent weeks.
A top political ally of former President Levon Ter-Petrosian joined on Monday a chorus of condemnation from Armenian opposition leaders of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s effective recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.
Armenian Parliament Speaker Alen Simonian on Thursday voiced regret over Turkey’s reaction to a memorial to “genocide avengers” in Yerevan that he said was erected by the decision of local authorities and did not necessarily reflect Armenia’s foreign policy.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has confirmed that there is a specific document on the table in Washington where Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov are having marathon talks these days in an attempt to hammer out a normalization agreement.
Authorities in Yerevan do not accept criticism from the parliamentary opposition over the installation by Azerbaijan of a checkpoint in the Lachin corridor at the border with Armenia effectively obstructing the movement of people and traffic from and to ethnic Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia will not sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan without negotiating security guarantees for Nagorno-Karabakh, a senior Armenian official said on Friday.
The United States is not considering imposing sanctions on Azerbaijan over its continuing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh’s sole land link with Armenia, a senior U.S. diplomat said late on Tuesday.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership on Friday praised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for advocating an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal that would respect the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination.
A senior European Union diplomat confirmed over the weekend that the EU is trying to organize further high-level negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s leadership has rejected Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s condition for direct negotiations between Baku and the authorities in Stepanakert.
An Armenian military officer was arrested and charged with negligence on Thursday in connection with last week’s deaths of 15 soldiers.
An aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeared to downplay on Wednesday a statement by another senior Ukrainian official suggesting that a new Azerbaijani military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh would help his country defeat Russia.
Nagorno-Karabakh is ready to negotiate with Azerbaijan, but only in an international format with the participation of mediators, a Stepanakert official said on Friday.
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