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Armenians had been using the road to bypass a blockade on the main road, the Lachin Corridor. The move drew a rare rebuke from the Russian peacekeepers.

Before her visit, the top diplomat spoke about "attempts to divert the country from its pro-European course."

The U.S. and Russia have both made high-level contact with Armenian and Azerbaijani officials as the rhetoric from Baku is getting increasingly bellicose.

Details are sparse on how the government plans to pay for the reform, and how it plans to improve the quality of care in parallel.

The ruling party says Western-funded NGOs aided what it called Russia-sponsored protests against the construction of a hydropower plant.

The resettlement of the key Nagorno-Karabakh town is due to start this year as well.

Many worry the ruling party's rhetoric may give rise to uncontrolled right-wing violence.

As talks between Azerbaijan and Karabakh Armenians show little promise, Baku is putting out signals that a military escalation could be in the offing.

A similar probe into the large-scale hostilities of 2016 promised to address public concerns, but its findings were classified.

It was unclear on whose behalf the former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was visiting, and what it portended for Armenia’s geopolitical orientation.

Armenia is moving away from the Russia-led bloc and perhaps opening the door to closer cooperation with the West.

The election of an independent ombudsperson through a transparent process was among the 12 conditions the country must fulfill to become an EU membership candidate.

Two days of unrest in Tbilisi put on display a widening gap in priorities between the government and the governed in Georgia.

Structural flaws in Georgia’s Western imported political institutions, most particularly in the system of elections, have consistently undermined the legitimacy of Georgia’s leaders.

The ruling party promised it would go through all formal procedures to defeat one of the bills, which already passed in the first reading. That will take more than 10 days though.