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Azerbaijan fires on Stepanakert with ‘reintegration’ talks underway
Armenian News | CivilNet Azerbaijani forces have reportedly violated Wednesday’s ceasefire agreement and opened fire on areas near the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, even with “reintegration” talks between officials from Stepanakert and Baku underway. Azerbaijani troops “are using firearms in the suburbs of Stepanakert” and “gunfire can be heard from the center of the capital,” Nagorno-Karabakh’s state-run InfoCenter said Thursday afternoon local time. The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh are “taking concrete steps with the relevant sides to resolve the situation,” the InfoCenter added. No other information was made immediately available. Earlier Thursday morning, delegations headed by Nagorno-Karabakh lawmaker Davit Melkumyan and Ramin […]
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Russian media: Peacekeepers’ deputy commander killed in Karabakh
Armenian News | CivilNet The Moscow-based newspaper Kommersant said the deputy commander of the Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh has been killed in an apparent Azerbaijani strike on his vehicle. Captain 1st rank Ivan Kovgan and an unknown number of other peacekeepers were killed, Kommersant reported Thursday, citing a veterans’ club in St. Petersburg and local media outlets in the northern Russian city of Murmansk. CivilNet was not able to independently confirm Kommersant’s reporting. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Russian servicemen had been killed Wednesday after their vehicle was shelled near the village of Chankatagh in northeastern Nagorno-Karabakh, but did not immediately […]
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Officials meet for ‘reintegration’ talks as Karabakh death toll tops
Armenian News | CivilNet By Mark Dovich Officials from Stepanakert and Baku convened Thursday morning for talks on “reintegrating” Nagorno-Karabakh into Azerbaijan, as the death toll in the region topped 200. The delegations are headed by Nagorno-Karabakh lawmaker Davit Melkumyan and Ramin Mammadov, Baku’s point person for talks with Stepanakert. Footage from Azerbaijani news sites shows Russian peacekeepers escorting Nagorno-Karabakh’s negotiators to the Azerbaijani town of Yevlakh. The Nagorno-Karabakh government agreed to the talks in a Russian-brokered ceasefire deal Wednesday afternoon that will also see the Artsakh Defense Army fully dissolved. Armenia did not take part in those negotiations, according […]
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Kremlin set up guidelines for media coverage of Karabakh crisis
Armenian News | CivilNet By Angela Hassassian The independent Russian news agency Meduza says it has exposed Kremlin’s guidelines sent to media, which emphasized framing the Nagorno-Karabakh narrative to depict Armenia and its Western “partners” as the primary culprits for the current crisis. The same guidelines push for the portrayal of Russian peacekeepers as heroes rescuing civilians amidst ongoing shelling. Sent by the presidential administration to state and pro-Kremlin media employees on the evening of September 19, the manual recommends blaming Armenia and Western nations by underscoring that “the Armenian leadership has recognized the sovereignty of Azerbaijan over Karabakh.” The […]
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Nagorno-Karabakh surrenders to Azerbaijan, population awaits for next steps
Armenian News | CivilNet By Ani Avetisyan Following the intense fighting and shelling of civilian infrastructure overnight, the authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh agreed to surrender on Wednesdsay and meet with Baku’s representatives in the Azerbaijani town of Yevlakh tomorrow. An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council is also planned for Thursday at French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative. The exact numbers of casualties from Azerbaijan’s recent attacks remain unclear. According to the latest information, the Armenian side has at least 200 killed and more than 400 hundred wounded, including women and children. The numbers of casualties are incomplete as it was […]
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Update on CivilNet Staff and Newsroom in Stepanakert
Armenian News | CivilNet By Syuzanna Petrosyan Hasmik Khachatryan, CivilNet’s videographer in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), has been in a bomb shelter for the last 24 hours in the region’s capital Stepanakert. Reporter Hayk Ghazaryan is with his family in Stepanakert. He sent this report earlier today. Before the bombing began, reporter Siranush Adamyan had decided to visit her parents in a village in the Martuni Region. In the past 24 hours, CivilNet has not been able to establish contact with her or anyone in her family. CivilNet’s newsroom in Stepanakert, which opened its doors a few months before the 2020 Karabakh […]
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Karabakh agrees to ceasefire 24 hours after Azerbaijan launches strikes
Armenian News | CivilNet The Nagorno-Karabakh government has agreed to fully disarm and disband its armed forces in a ceasefire deal brokered by the Russian peacekeepers. The decision comes just 24 hours after Azerbaijan launched strikes across the region.
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