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Soyudlu residents' protest last month appears to have borne fruit, but the village is still under lockdown. And more people have been arrested for showing solidarity.

The de facto president and other officials are camped out in tents in Stepanakert's central square demanding that Armenia and Russia take action to end Azerbaijan's blockade.

Many Azerbaijani activists wish Western democracies would do more to push back against their repressive government.

Red Cross vehicles had been the only ones granted access to the road connecting Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Ilham Aliyev asserted that Soyudlu residents have the right to protest in the face of environmental hazards, though he also backed the police, who brutally suppressed their demonstration.

The deep well BP started drilling in its ACG oil field has found reservoirs of gas that could be available for export to Europe.

Azerbaijan has long resented France's alleged pro-Armenian stances. Now it is couching criticism of these stances in a broader critique of Paris' "neocolonialism."

The president again warned that Armenian "armed groups" must be disbanded as a prerequisite for a stable peace.

Law enforcement continues to control movement in and out of the village of Soyudlu. More people have been arrested as well, including a former MP who represented the area.

Four Karabakhi Armenian soldiers were shot dead while Armenia and Azerbaijan were negotiating in Washington for a peace deal.

While coordination will help reduce delivery times from goods coming from China, investment is also needed in new infrastructure.

Video showed riot police spraying a chemical irritant directly into the faces of older female protesters.

The verdict, which many believe sent the wrong man to prison for 18 years, reinforces popular mistrust in the law enforcement and judicial system.

Azerbaijan shut down all traffic between Nagorno-Karabakh and the outside world on June 15, exacerbating shortages and preventing patients from seeking urgent medical care.

The 230 MW Garadagh Solar Power Plant will be commissioned later this year, but questions over Baku's long term renewables strategy remain unanswered.

Iran is increasing pipeline capacity to boost swaps further as Azerbaijan warns it won't help fund any pipelines to transit Turkmen gas to Europe.

Azerbaijan, which had been pressing hard for a resolution, has eased off following the Turkish elections and their establishment of a border post in Karabakh.

Roughly a month after Azerbaijan installed a border post on the Lachin corridor, a small but growing number of Karabakh Armenians are using the route. But there is still strong social pressure against doing so.

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh are joyously marking life milestones and cherishing every moment as uncertainty hangs over their future.

Until now there have been nearly no arms sales from Western countries to Azerbaijan or its rival, Armenia.

The question of the exclaves is one of the thorniest facing Armenia and Azerbaijan as they work to delineate their border.

The Azerbaijani government has once again urged its citizens not to travel to Iran and is trying to secure contact with the student.

Ahmad Obali, a prominent proponent of Azerbaijani nationalism in Iran and virulent critic of the Islamic Republic, refused to speak about who might have attacked him.

The self-proclaimed environmental activists, who blocked the key road to Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly 140 days, now complain that their government is neglecting them.

Aliyev's threatening rhetoric makes clear his government will ignore exhortations to sit down for talks with representatives of the entity he considers anathema to Azerbaijan.