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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.

Nationalist calls for migrants in Russia to "pay their dues" are starting to be heard against a mounting backdrop of xenophobic sentiment.

Rahmon is selling this as a triumph for his industrialization agenda, but there are concerns of mounting militarization.

The rights group's report suggests that troops on both sides knowingly targeted civilians with deadly force.

One senior security services officer is said to have been killed in a clash with alleged smugglers.

Armenians have appealed to Russia, which is supposed to provide security on the road, as Baku tightens the noose around the territory's population.

Kudebayev got out of the country by crossing into neighboring Kyrgyzstan and then flying to Turkey.

Six people, allegedly with ties to Iran, were detained as suspects in the shooting of MP Fazil Mustafa.

His outspoken criticism of Iran, and the timing coinciding with the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Israel led some fellow MPs to point the finger at Tehran.

Azerbaijan is seeking to equate the rights of the Azerbaijanis who were displaced from Armenia to those of Karabakh Armenians. Yerevan isn't having it.

The embassy in Dushanbe, which is still run by the anti-Taliban opposition, is said to be considering its position.

Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.

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.

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.

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

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

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Azerbaijan sent two notes of protest in the past week to its southern neighbor, with whom relations have been steadily deteriorating.

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 Soviet-era constraint of collective decision-making seems to have eroded in Putin’s Russia.

Five were killed in the shootout, which occurred four days after the most public meeting yet between Azerbaijani and Karabakhi Armenian representatives.

Conservation volunteers are driving international cooperation.

Azerbaijan has identified a special representative to talk to the Armenians of Karabakh.