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WATERTOWN — Russian-Israeli blogger Aleksander Lapshin, once imprisoned by Azerbaijan for having visited Artsakh several times, is on a tour of the Americas. He recently held meetings in New York City with Human Rights Watch, Amnesty[...]

By Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Azerbaijan may be walking away from recent understandings reached with Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan suggested on Monday, May 29, reacting to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s[...]

The Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers held a four-day negotiation marathon in Washington on May 1-4. The last round of almost week-long negotiations took place 22 years ago, again in the US. Presidents Robert Kocharyan and Heydar[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Azerbaijani FM Jeyhun Bayramov and US Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, Senior Adviser of the US State Department on Negotiations in the South Caucasus Louis[...]

By Heydar Isayev Farmers in central Azerbaijan staged a protest last week over a long-festering problem –  the shortage of water – and were violently suppressed by police. On March 13, about 200 villagers in Saatli District tried to[...]

BAKU (Combined Sources) — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated on Tuesday, February 28, Russia’s opposition to Azerbaijan’s desire to set up a checkpoint on the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia which has been[...]

WASHINGTON (RFE/RL) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken phoned Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday, January 23, to call for an immediate end to Azerbaijan’s six-week blockade of the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to[...]

YEREVAN (Al-Jazeera) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have negotiated a ceasefire to end a sudden resurgence of fighting that has killed 155 soldiers from both sides, according to a senior Armenian official. Armen Grigoryan, the secretary of[...]

By Davit Safaryan Special to the Mirror-Spectator The main question raised by Armenians in Armenia and the diaspora is what fate awaits the Artsakh Armenians after the 44-day war. The Azerbaijani president is boldly announcing that the[...]

BAKU (RFE/RL) — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on June 16 warned Armenia against bringing up the status of Nagorno-Karabakh in peace talks with Azerbaijan and again demanded a land corridor passing through Armenian territory.[...]