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Police have been acting more forcefully following victory in last year’s war with Armenia.

The new media law would impose many new regulations on the country’s already heavily controlled media.

It would be the most concrete step yet in restoring ties between the two sides, whose border has been closed for nearly three decades.

Eric Zemmour’s visit was largely unnoticed in Armenia, but French Armenians accused him of trying to use the country’s conflicts for his own Islamophobic purposes.

The Armenian government has come under fire for appearing to discredit as “deserters” the dozens of soldiers still in captivity.

The International Court of Justice declined, however, to order more concrete measures related to Armenian prisoners and maps of land mines in Azerbaijan.

Compared to its neighbors, anti-vaccine sentiment hasn’t really taken hold in Azerbaijan. Some are still trying, though.

Government critics immediately began speculating about a foreign plot, which authorities have ruled out.

Similar systems have been used around the world to encourage vaccinations. But under Georgia’s, you may be better off not being vaccinated at all.

In his first public appearance following his surprise return to the country, arrest, and hunger strike, the ex-president brushed off the charges against him and issued an expansive defense of his time in power.

There was much to discuss just over a year after the end of the war, including ongoing border tensions, plans to reopen borders and transportation, and the fate of Armenian prisoners.

The unfinished structure was the result of a brief period of direct Roman control over Armenia in the second century CE.

Serzh Sargsyan’s lawyers said the timing of the charges was suspicious, coming amid a period of bad news on the border with Azerbaijan.