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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.
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.
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