Topic: Russian peacekeepers

By Lilit Shahverdyan Russia’s Foreign Ministry has angrily defended the performance of the country’s peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh. In September last year the 2,000-strong peacekeeping contingent did not intervene as Baku[...]

By Ani Avetisyan As Armenia seeks Western help in coping with the influx of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, its relations with Russia continue to deteriorate. Last week Armenian Prime Minister Nikol[...]

By Robyn Dixon &  Francesca Ebel RIGA, Latvia (Washington Post) — With virtually the entire population of Armenians fleeing from Nagorno-Karabakh, refugees are voicing rage over the loss of their[...]

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Nagorno-Karabakh agreed to disband its armed forces and discuss its “reintegration” into Azerbaijan as part of a Russian-brokered ceasefire announced on Wednesday, September 20, 24 hours after[...]

WASHINGTON — The Republic of Artsakh is currently experiencing some of the most difficult times in its tumultuous history. Azerbaijan is maintaining its chokehold on Karabakh (Artsakh) by blockading the[...]

STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL, Public Radio of Armenia) — On August 28 President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council upon the arrest of three[...]

When Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia signed the November 10, 2020, trilateral statement, it seemed that the Kremlin scored another victory in the South Caucasus. It was a thinly veiled secret[...]

STEPANAKERT (Azatutyun) — Thousands of people rallied in Stepanakert on Friday, July 14, in what local officials described as the start of daily protests against Azerbaijan’s seven-month blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh[...]

PRAGUE (Public Radio of Armenia) — Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has urged the international community to give a “clear and targeted” assessment of the “humanitarian crisis” in Nagorno-Karabakh, claiming that[...]

STEPANAKERT (ArtsakhPress) — Armenian clergymen continue their spiritual service at Dadivank Monastery thanks to the Russian peacekeeper mission, according to a report from the press service of the Mother See[...]