Politics – CIVILNET
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With ethnic cleansing underway, Armenians begin leaving Karabakh
Politics – CIVILNET The first group of displaced Nagorno-Karabakh citizens has arrived in Syunik, Armenia on Sunday, CivilNet’s Armine Simonyan reports from the southern Armenian region. The group of about 40 people is being registered at a humanitarian station and a special needs assessment is being conducted for medical and housing care. Those displayed told CivilNet that no checks were carried out by Azerbaijan at the Lachin Corridor as they passed through the checkpoint. Syunik Governor Robert Ghukasyan told CivilNet that the region, which now borders Azerbaijan, has set up mobile medical centers as well as ambulances, ready to provide […]
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Opposition lawmaker beaten at anti-government protests in Armenia
Politics – CIVILNET Gegham Manukyan, a well-known lawmaker from the opposition Armenia Alliance bloc, says he was beaten by a police officer at an anti-government protest earlier this week in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. “Two days ago, during the protests, a conspiratorial, Nikol-supporting police officer tried to hit me while he was standing behind his friends,” Manukyan said in a Facebook video Thursday with bandages stretched across his nose. “It doesn’t matter, I’ll return to the ranks in a couple of days.” Since Tuesday, downtown Yerevan has been rocked by nightly demonstrations, with thousands of protesters calling on Armenian Prime Minister […]
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Russian media: Peacekeepers’ deputy commander killed in Karabakh
Politics – 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 provide […]
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Kremlin set up guidelines for media coverage of Karabakh crisis
Politics – 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 guidelines […]
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Nagorno-Karabakh surrenders to Azerbaijan, population awaits for next steps
Politics – 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 impossible […]
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Update on CivilNet Staff and Newsroom in Stepanakert
Politics – 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 War, […]
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Karabakh agrees to ceasefire 24 hours after Azerbaijan launches strikes
Politics – 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.
