Topic: Artsakh blockade

By Sona Hovsepyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator STEPANAKERT — Narine Yakhshibekyan, a 20-year-old student at Mesrop Mashtots University, is unable to go from Martuni town to the city of Stepanakert[...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (SFRC) held a hearing “Assessing the Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh” on September 14, with witness Yuri Kim, Acting Assistant Secretary[...]

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held an emergency hearing on the ongoing blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Lachin Corridor on Wednesday, September 6, emphasizing the deteriorating conditions on[...]

WASHINGTON (RFE/RL) — The United States on Sunday, September 10, warned the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict to refrain from military action amid rising tensions along the Karabakh “line[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Humanitarian aid sent to Karabakh by the Russian Red Cross contains essential goods of Russian production, the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities said on September 12. “As previously announced, the[...]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week warned at the Senate session that Azerbaijan’s ongoing blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) has all the[...]

YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — European rabbis affiliated with the Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE) have faced strong criticism over their latest statement seeking to downplay the scale of[...]

MOSCOW (Azatutyun) — The humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh is a result of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s decision to recognize the region as part of Azerbaijan, Russian President Vladimir Putin[...]

WASHINGTON (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The United States has called for the immediate and simultaneous opening of both Lachin and Aghdam routes to allow passage of humanitarian supplies to Karabakh (Artsakh). “The[...]

WASHINGTON—In response to increasing military tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan and worsening conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh, Freedom House president Michael J. Abramowitz issued the following statement on September 11: “We are[...]