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Several thousand people gathered in central Yerevan on November 18 for a second week demanding Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation. Several hundred people staged a pro-Pashinian rally in front of the government building a few hundred meters away. (RFE/RL's Armenian Service)
Thousands of people gathered in Armenia's capital on November 16 to protest a cease-fire agreement that ended more than six weeks of fighting with Azerbaijan over its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijanis who fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region during the 1990s conflict with Armenians are now looking forward to returning to their home villages. But as Armenians left, they were burning their houses and ripping down electricity poles.
Azerbaijan has agreed to extend a deadline for Armenia to withdraw from a district as part of a peace agreement that ended a six-week war over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The leader of Armenia's opposition Homeland party, Artur Vanetsian, has been arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow the government and kill the country's embattled prime minister, as the country's main security body said it had thwarted an assassination attempt.
Armored vehicles from Russia's peacekeeping mission entered the Kalbacar district in Azerbaijan (known as Karvachar in Armenian) on November 13. Kalbacar is an occupied district of Azerbaijan northwest of Nagorno-Karabakh that is now being handed back to Baku under a Russia-brokered truce.
Scores of people were seen leaving the war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh region for Armenia's capital, Yerevan, on November 11. The road they were taking passes through Kelbajar, a corridor formerly held by Armenia but now controlled by Azerbaijan under a new cease-fire deal brokered by Russia.
Armenian opposition groups are continuing their protests to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian over the terms he agreed to in a Russian-brokered accord with Azerbaijan that ended more than six weeks of fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Armenian capital to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's resignation over an agreement he signed with Azerbaijan to end more than six weeks of fighting over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A Russian-brokered agreement with Azerbaijan to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh triggered an explosion of anger in Armenia. Protesters stormed the government headquarters in Yerevan and parliament. Meanwhile, celebrations broke out in Azerbaijan.
Protesters entered the Armenian parliament building in Yerevan early on November 10. The unrest followed the announcement that Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia had signed an agreement putting an end to weeks of conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia's ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, has condemned the violence by protesters amid unrest triggered by the signing of a Russian-brokered agreement with Azerbaijan to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia was plunged into political crisis after opposition groups called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign and a night of unrest over a Russian-brokered agreement with Azerbaijan to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh left the fate of the deal uncertain.
The leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia have signed an agreement to end fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh starting on November 10, triggering unrest in the Armenian capital as protesters stormed government buildings.
Azerbaijan has captured the strategic city of Shushi, known as Susa in Azeri, as fighting with Armenia intensifies for control of the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Officials from the de facto government in the breakaway area of Nagorno-Karabakh have confirmed that Azerbaijani forces have taken control of the strategic town of Shushi amid heavy fighting and reports forces are approaching the region’s capital, Stepanakert.
Armenia's Ministry of Defense has proposed tripling the amount of money working Armenians pay to a special fund set up for compensation paid to the families of soldiers killed or seriously wounded in war.
Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh continued overnight, with the separatist region's de facto authorities reporting the deaths of at least three civilians following shelling by Azerbaijani forces.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have both reported fresh fighting in and around the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, with each side laying blame on the other as hopes for a resumption of cease-fire negotiations between the two sides dwindled.
Azerbaijan says that 91 civilians have been killed and hundreds more wounded since the resumption of fighting with Armenian forces over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh more than a month ago.
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