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A 4.7-magnitude earthquake shook the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on Feburary 13, prompting residents to flee buildings into the streets in fear of an aftershock.
When an Armenian shopkeeper tells our TV crew she would serve Azerbaijani customers, her husband threatens to kill her. The new border drawn by the peace deal signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan has split the village of Shurnukh and brought new tensions.
Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal says he think the Minsk Group will continue to exist despite France and the United States being kept out of the Russian-brokered agreement between Baku and Yerevan.
Former Armenian President Robert Kocharian, currently on trial on charges stemming from his alleged role in a 2008 postelection crackdown on the opposition, says he will participate in early parliamentary elections if they are called.
The Armenian parliament has installed two new members at the state body that nominates, sanctions, and dismisses the South Caucasus country’s judges, amid tensions between the government and judiciary.
After losing both arms in the recent conflict with Azerbaijan over its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, 27-year-old Armenian veteran Varazdat Saneian had to ask his brother to slip an engagement ring on his fiancee's finger.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian -- facing criticism from the country’s dominant Christian church over his handling of Armenia's recent war against Azerbaijan -- has stayed away from a Christmas service he was expected to attend in Yerevan on January 6.
Azerbaijan says one of its servicemen has been killed and another wounded in an attack by ethnic Armenian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh, a claim dismissed by the breakaway region's de facto authorities.
Armenia’s beleaguered prime minister has for the first time signaled a willingness to hold early parliamentary elections as opposition groups mount pressure for his resignation over the handling of a six-week war with Azerbaijan.
Thousands of people have poured into the Armenian capital’s main square as the opposition continues its campaign to pressure Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to quit over last month’s cease-fire deal with Azerbaijan.
Hundreds of protesters blocked a section of highway near the town of Goris on December 21 in Armenia's southeastern province of Syunik, forcing Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to cut short a visit to the region.
Anti-government protesters have forced Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to cut short a visit to the southeastern province of Syunik, amid mounting anger over last month's cease-fire deal with Azerbaijan.
Armenians on December 19 began three days of mourning for those who died in six weeks of fierce fighting against Azerbaijani forces in and around Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he alone cannot decide to call early parliamentary elections, even as he faces mounting opposition calls for him to step down over last month's cease-fire deal with Azerbaijan.
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.
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