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BY RAFFI DADAIAN Standing under the snow-covered victory tank along the Lachin-Stepanakert highway, we hear “Karabakh is Azerbaijan!” Just a few hundred yards away atop Shushi’s eastern fortress walls, stand three Azerbaijani soldiers. There is no one in sight but me and them. I stare up at them for 10 seconds and climb on top of the tank to take a picture. “Karabakh is Azerbaijan!” Again, I glance at the figures on the wall while light snow begins to fall and the low-lying clouds mo...

Two months after hostilities ended in Karabakh, the whereabouts of many Armenian soldiers and civilians detained in Azerbaijan remains unclear, with relatives concerned that Yerevan is not doing enough to locate them. The ceasefire agreement signed on November 9 by Yerevan, Baku and Moscow did not specify the time frame for implementing the “exchange of prisoners of war and other detainees.” Yerevan and Baku recently announced that this would be carried out based on the “all for all” pr...

Residents of Karabakh have welcomed the presence of Russian peacekeepers, deployed as part of the ceasefire agreement that ended the 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan on November 9. But while their visible presence, guaranteed for at least five years, has reassured some immediate concerns about security, locals still feel uncertain about the long-term future of the unrecognised republic. And there are concerns that the peacekeepers may not be able to present all future clashes between A...

Contributor Fears are growing that a wealth of Armenian cultural, historical and religious heritage in areas now under Azerbaijani control are under threat. Some sites were damaged in fighting before the November 9 ceasefire agreement, while officials and experts warn that the Azerbaijani side may try to destroy others or deny their links to Armenian history. On October 8, Azerbaijani forces twice shelled the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi with high-precision weapons. Later, the church was...

PanARMENIAN.Net - The remains of three Nagorno-Karabakh servicemen were found on Sunday, January 17, according to Hunan Tadevosyan, the head of the Depart

Karabakh Welcomes Peacekeeper “Brothers” By Arshaluys Mgdesyan Residents of Karabakh have welcomed the presence of Russian peacekeepers, deployed as part of the ceasefire agreement that ended the 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan on November 9. But while their visible presence, guaranteed for at least five years, has reassured some immediate concerns about security, locals still feel uncertain about the long-term future of the unrecognised republic. And there are concerns that the p...

Foreign Minister Ara Aivazyan briefs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Foreign Minister of Armenia Ara Ayvazian on Thursday decried Azerbaijan’s violation of the November 9 ceasefire agreement, saying that the situation created in the region is the result of use of force, adding that no conflict has ever been solved by use of force. Aivazyan was addressing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations in a regular briefing. Below are excerpts from Aivaz...

STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh search and rescue teams have found the body of a 58-year old civilian in the village of Karintak, Artsakh.

It is extremely important for Moscow to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis, maintaining a balance in relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as with Turkey and Iran, and with partners in the OSCE Minsk Group. There is no rational need to create additional tensions with the West over Karabakh until (and if) the United States and its allies begin to revise the currently fragile consensus with Russia, Valdai Club expert Sergey Markedonov writes.

This is not about politics. This is about our country, about the rule of law, and about the sanctity of human life. The President invited mobs to Washington—promising a “wild” time—and told them to march to the Capitol. Despite the fact that there was not one thing that Vice President Pence could have lawfully done, the President called him a coward, and whipped up crowds against him who, many of them, then chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” while constructing gallows on the Capitol grounds...