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A Russian soldier was stabbed to death in the northern city of Gyumri, where Moscow maintains a garrison and which was the site of a grisly mass slaying by a Russian serviceman in 2015 that triggered widespread outrage in the ex-Soviet republic.
A former top military commander in Nagorno-Karabakh who is close to an Armenian opposition alliance has been arrested in Armenia on suspicion of smuggling weapons into the country.
Several hundred people gathered for the third day in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, to demand a full investigation into the recent death of activist Artur Sarkisian.
Several hundred people gathered for the second day in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, to protest the death of an activist who passed away just days after being released from prison following a 25-day hunger strike.
The separatists controlling Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have strengthened their executive leader's powers in a referendum that international observers warned was illegal.
Russia says it is "deeply disappointed" about the extradition of Russian-Israeli blogger Aleksandr Lapshin from Belarus to Baku, where he faces charges of supporting the independence of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
A court in Armenia has sentenced three men to three years in prison each in connection with the 2016 seizure of a Yerevan police station.
Officials say at least four soldiers were killed and several others wounded in a border clash between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces early on December 29.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani visited Armenia on December 21 as part of a swing through three former Soviet republics.
Armenia is looking to increase imports of natural gas from neighboring Iran after the two countries signed an agreement earlier this week.
Armenia’s main opposition party is optimistic about achieving a democratic change in next year’s parliamentary elections.
Senior officials from former Soviet republics, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, are gathering in Yerevan to attend a session of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
A son of an opposition candidate for the post of mayor of Armenia's second-largest city, Gyumri, has been found dead.
Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamian has announced his widely anticipated resignation, citing his government’s failure to address the many economic and political challenges facing the country.
Armenian police said on August 29 that they have detained a Russian national at the request of the U.S. government after being informed the man was wanted in the United States on charges of money laundering and illegally transferring military technology from the United States to an undisclosed foreign country.
A court in Yerevan has granted bail to a leading member of the opposition Heritage party, who was charged in connection with a recent rally.
An Armenian court has found Russian Army Private Valery Permyakov guilty of murder charges and sentenced him to life imprisonment for the 2015 killing of seven members of an Armenian family.
A court in Armenia has rejected more appeals filed by some of the three dozen members of an armed group that seized and held a police station in Yerevan last month.
A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to another leading member of the Heritage opposition party who was charged in connection with his participation at a recent rally.
An Armenian court has finished hearings in the high-profile case of a Russian soldier accused of killing an Armenian family of seven.
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