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Armenia

September 2023

  • Explosion flame rises over an area which Azerbaijan says hosts Armenian forces' positions in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.

    Azerbaijan launches ‘anti-terrorist’ attack in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh

    Bombardment of blockaded region could reopen 2020 war that took land from Armenian population

  • Explosions, bomb raids and artillery heard in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region – video

    Smoke seen in the Nagorno-Karabakh mountains after Azerbaijan announced an operation targeting Armenian military positions. The Azerbaijan defence ministry said the operation began hours after four soldiers and two civilians died in landmine explosions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The bombardment of the blockaded region, which local Armenians call Artsakh, could reopen a bloody 2020 war in which Azerbaijan retook land from a local Armenian population amid widespread accusations of war crimes

    • Why is there dispute over control of Nagorno-Karabakh?

    • Genocide warning in Nagorno-Karabakh

    • Nagorno-Karabakh routes reopen in Lachin corridor deal, say Azeri and Armenian sides

August 2023

  • Azerbaijani checkpoint recently set up at the entry of the Lachin corridor

    ‘They want us to die in the streets’: inside the Nagorno-Karabakh blockade

  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: supermarket shelves empty as food shortages hit – video

May 2023

  • A laptop shows the homepage of NSO Group.

    United Nations official and others in Armenia hacked by NSO Group spyware

  • Monumental star-quality … House on the Volcano.

    House on the Volcano review – silent classic of Soviet Armenia glories in machine age

April 2023

  • An ethnic Armenian soldier looks through binoculars as he stands at fighting positions near divided Taghavard village in Nagorno-Karabakh region.

    Armenian and Azeri soldiers clash near contested Nagorno-Karabakh region

    Rivals have accused each other of initiating fire which killed seven people

March 2023

  • Protesters brandishing an EU flag are hit by a water cannon during clashes with riot police near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi last week.

    ‘Russia has lost its soft power’: how war in Ukraine destabilises old Soviet allies

    Protests in Georgia last week were just the latest indication of how Putin’s disastrous invasion has damaged relations with former Eastern bloc nations

January 2023

  • An unexploded rocket near Stepanakert in 2020, during the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.

    The age of extinction
    Azerbaijan sues Armenia for wartime environmental damage

    Case brought under Bern convention on nature may set precedent for destruction of biodiversity in war

November 2022

  • Vladimir Putin walks alone at the CSTO summit in Yerevan

    Putin’s grip on regional allies loosens again after Armenia snub

    Damaging optics of ‘family’ photo at CSTO summit highlights fragility of Russia’s influence in wake of war in Ukraine

September 2022

  • A Russian Flag flies above the coat of arms of the Soviet Union on the Russian Parliament building in Moscow.

    Former Soviet states eye opportunities as Russia struggles in Ukraine

  • Armenia's defence ministry has released footage purporting to show Azerbaijani troops advancing towards its border after a fresh round of fighting broke out between the countries in the early hours of Tuesday. The Guardian cannot independently verify the defence ministry's video.

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    About 100 killed as fighting erupts at the Armenia-Azerbaijan border – video

  • Soldiers walk in a trench at a border checkpoint between Armenia and Azerbaijan near the village of Sotk, Armenia, in June 2021.

    About 100 troops killed in clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

  • Azerbaijan forces in the border district of Lachin.

    Why has fighting broken out between Armenia and Azerbaijan?

August 2022

  • Fireworks explosion tears through shopping mall in Armenia – video

    Video shows a large explosion sending people running from a massive plume of smoke and debris

May 2022

  • Elena Chegodaeva, a teacher from Moscow

    Russian émigrés fleeing Putin’s war find freedom in the cafes of Armenia

  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan in We and Our Mountains.

    We and Our Mountains review – absurdist Armenian satire thumbs its nose at Soviet Russia

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