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The de facto authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh say dozens of ethnic Armenian soldiers have been captured in a raid by Azerbaijani forces in the breakaway region following last month's cease-fire that ended six weeks of fighting.
Armenia's embattled prime minister, Nikol Pashinian, who is facing mounting opposition calls for him to step down over last month's cease-fire deal with Azerbaijan, says he alone cannot decide to call early parliamentary elections.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have started exchanging prisoners, a move stipulated in the cease-fire agreement between the two neighbors that ended recent fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh territory.
pposition activists have blocked several streets in Yerevan as pressure continues to build on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian amid opposition calls for him to step down over last month’s cease-fire deal with Azerbaijan.
The office of the former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has declined to expound on a leaked audio recording of a conversation the former president had four years ago with Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Hundreds of Armenian opposition supporters rallied in Yerevan to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian over his handling of the conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinian rejected the demand, saying he is determined to stick to his plan to “restore stability” to Armenia.
Opposition supporters have blocked streets in the Armenian capital after they launched a "civil disobedience" campaign to force Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to step down
Prominent Nagorno-Karabakh expert Thomas de Waal spoke to RFE/RL about the future of the breakaway region after Azerbaijan retook most of its occupied territory from Armenian forces.
Thousands rallied in Yerevan on December 5 calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's resignation until December 8 over the November 10 cease-fire agreement with Azerbaijan sealing Armenia's retreat from most of Nagorno-Karabakh after a 44-day war. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Armenian opposition groups angry over Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have united by naming a single candidate they want to head a transitional government until new elections can be held.
Nearly 2,800 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in fighting with ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani officials said, the first time Baku has published casualty figures from the 44-day conflict.
Armenian authorities have lifted some restrictions on public rallies and strikes, restrictions imposed more than two months ago amid fierce fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijani forces moved into the district of Lachin early on December 1. It was the last of three territories ceded by Armenia under a peace deal that ended a six-week war over Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijani lawmakers on November 26 called for France to be expelled from the Minsk Group mediating in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute after the French Senate backed the breakaway region's independence claim.
Azerbaijani troops have moved into the Kalbacar district after it was handed over by Armenia as part of a deal that ended six weeks of fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the implementation of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in separate phone calls with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia's economy minister, Tigran Khachatrian, has tendered his resignation.
The wife of former Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian has died after being infected with the coronavirus. She was 58.
Azerbaijani troops have arrived in the country's Agdam district, a day after Armenian forces withdrew under the terms of a peace deal ending six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Many Armenian civilians, who had just days to pack their belongings, burned their houses as they departed
Russian peacekeepers have been deployed on the road connecting Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh. The deployment is among the terms of a Moscow-mediated truce signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan that put an end to 44 days of deadly fighting.
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