Azerbaijan has been playing hardball with Armenia over the prisoners it continues to hold. But with a botched POW release that wasn’t, Armenia has weakened its position all by itself.
Following last year’s Armenia-Azerbaijan war, officials said there would soon be passenger flights at Stepanakert’s long-closed airport. Now that looks again like a distant prospect.
This appears to be the end of the two-year legal saga of Robert Kocharyan. Now he says he’s going back to politics to challenge his political nemesis, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
What’s in a name? Azerbaijan’s decision to stop using the name “Nagorno-Karabakh” is the latest chapter in the long history of contested terminology in the region. Our weekly Post-War Report.
The new law would triple penalties for insult and defamation. The government and press have had a combative relationship since the coming to power of Nikol Pashinyan, himself a former journalist.
Amid heightened concerns about the fate of historic cultural heritage sites in Karabakh comes news that Azerbaijan has razed a three-year-old Armenian church. Our weekly Post-War Report.
Azerbaijan announced the drills shortly after its president issued aggressive statements about Armenian territory, leading to rumors among Armenians about a new war. Our weekly Post-War Report.
Two spy scandals involving well-regarded organizations speak to Armenians’ loss of faith in the international community, as well as the opposition’s interest in taking advantage of that mistrust. Our weekly Post-war Report.
In the middle of the country’s victorious war against Armenia, the chief of staff of the armed forces – long the subject of public rumors of “treason” – disappeared. He hasn’t been seen since.
The missiles didn’t explode and were out of date, Armenia’s prime minister complained. Some Russians saw those as fighting words. But Russia is still looking to expand its military activities in Armenia. Our weekly column.
Karabakh considers making Russian an official language, more restrictions on journalists, and Azerbaijan cracks down on illegal – and dangerous – visits to its newly retaken territories. Welcome to our new weekly column on the aftermath of the 2020 war.
