Susan Badalian is a journalist with RFE/RL's Armenian Service.
Residents of several Armenian communities in northeastern Tavush Province began protests late on April 19 after authorities in Armenia and Azerbaijan announced a border-delimitation deal under which Baku will regain control of four formerly Azeri-populated villages in the area.
An ethnic Armenian soldier spent 33 days in the woods of Nagorno-Karabakh, foraging for food before finally surrendering. Rafael Hakobian was unaware that the breakaway region's ethnic Armenian leadership had capitulated within 24 hours of a massive Azerbaijani attack.
Azerbaijan continues to arrest and charge Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian leadership following Baku's takeover of the region. Baku has said it plans to give amnesty to Armenian fighters but is looking to arrest people it claims committed "war crimes."
Over half the estimated population of 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh has fled to Armenia, according to Yerevan officials. Armenian volunteers are doing what they can to provide relief to the displaced people who have flooded into the country.
Thousands of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh have flooded into the border town of Goris after enduring an arduous journey out of the the crisis-hit region. RFE/RL spoke with refugees in Armenia who said they left everything behind and hadn't eaten in days.
A newborn baby was among more than an estimated 13,000 ethnic Armenian refugees who have now fled from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia. RFE/RL spoke with the mother of 2-week-old Avetis, who spent his first days of life in a basement shelter in the city of Martekert, known as Agdere in Azeri.
The body of an Armenian woman has spent weeks in a refrigerated container as her relatives say they have been unable to return it to her native village in Nagorno-Karabakh amid an Azerbaijani blockade of the breakaway territory. Helen Dadayan, 20, died in a car crash in Armenia in August.
An Armenian couple who lost two sons during a 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan have had a new baby son with the help of a surrogate mother. Nushik Muradian, 49, and Gegham Ghazaria have named the baby Samvel after one of their late sons who were both killed on the same day.
Residents in the Armenian village of Tegh are worried that violence along the Azerbaijani border could escalate further after a deadly skirmish between soldiers from both countries. The Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministries reported a total of seven deaths among members of their armed forces.
Thousands of residents of Armenian towns and villages close to the Azerbaijani border have fled their homes since the outbreak of large-scale fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on September 12. RFE/RL's Armenian Service is on the ground.
Ethnic Armenians face the prospect of their villages returning to Azerbaijani control after 30 years of Armenian occupation due to a new road being built connecting Armenia with Armenian-controlled areas in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Reestablishing Armenia's direct links with Azerbaijan and Turkey is seen as crucial for regional peace following the war over Nagorno-Karabakh. But fears and animosities still run deep.
Armenian authorities say they have launched a criminal investigation into "numerous" cases of foreigners illegally adopting Armenian children.
