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Armenia Azerbaijan has detained two Armenian soldiers along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Azerbaijan’s State Border Service said that Harut Hovagimyan and Karen Ghazaryan were part of a “sabotage group” found in Azerbaijan’s southwestern district Zangilan. They […]

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Armenia Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has defended charges against a woman accused of kidnapping his son. Pashinyan’s son Ashot encountered a protest organized by an NGO that advocates for the mothers of fallen soldiers. […]

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Armenia Opposition parties are disappointed in the outcome of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s fresh talks to normalize relations with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels over the weekend. The two leaders met with European Council […]

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Armenia Agshin Bebirov, an Azerbaijani soldier who crossed the border into Armenia, has been sentenced to 11.5 years in prison. Bebirov was detained on April 10 in Ashotavan, Syunik and charged with illegally crossing and […]

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Armenia Law enforcement have conducted a violent raid of Poligraf, a prominent electronic nightclub in Yerevan. Police stormed into the club in the early hours of Sunday morning and arrested over 40 people, including clubgoers […]

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Armenia An Armenian citizen burned the Azerbaijani flag on stage during the opening ceremony of the European Weightlifting Championship in Yerevan. Designer Aram Nikolyan ran on stage, snatched the Azerbaijani flag from a performer and […]

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Armenia Armenian authorities have detained an Azerbaijani man who crossed the border into Armenia’s Syunik province. After his arrest, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported that two of its soldiers got lost along the border of Nakhichevan […]

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Armenia Russia has suspended the supply of dairy products imported from Armenia as of April 5. Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, said that there is a “risk of low-quality and unsafe […]

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Armenia Russia has warned Armenia against ratifying the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). “Moscow considers absolutely unacceptable the plans of official Yerevan to accede to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal […]

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Armenia The Civil Contract Party has nominated Deputy Prosecutor-General Anahit Manasyan for the post of Armenia’s Human Rights Defender. The previous ombudswoman Kristine Grigoryan unexpectedly announced her resignation two months ago. Manasyan has served in […]