Live updates: Day 25 of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Live updates: Day 25 of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh

Fighting is continuing for the 25th day over Nagorno-Karabakh, despite a ceasefire being agreed in Moscow.

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Pashinyan challenges former presidents to debate on Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations

Arshaluys Barseghyan

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On Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan proposed a live debate with three former Armenian Presidents to discuss the decades-long negotiation process with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. All three refused Pashinyan’s invitation. Pashinyan invited the former presidents — Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan, and Serzh Sargsyan — claiming on Facebook that since the 1994 Russian-mediated ceasefire between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the negotiation process was always ab

Armenia

Armenia proposes reduction in working hours

Arshaluys Barseghyan

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In response, people drew the authority’s attention to the widespread violations of labour rights.

Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan. Official image.

Armenia

Outrage after Yerevan’s Mayor calls local media a ‘big garbage dump’

Arshaluys Barseghyan

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The comments came after Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan was investigated for corruption by CivilNet and the OCCRP.

Yerevan bus drivers on strike in December. Photo: <em>RFE/RL</em>.

Armenia

Prosecutors reject criminal case over Yerevan bus strike

Arshaluys Barseghyan

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The Prosecutor General’s office did not launch any criminal proceedings regarding the Yerevan bus drivers’ strike in early December, following which city authorities submitted a report about the strikers’ alleged crime to the Prosecutor General. The update on the case came on Wednesday, with the Prosecutor General’s office telling RFE/RL that no criminal proceedings have been brought. ‘More simply, the investigator did not see any criminally punishable actions in the drivers’ strike,’ RFE/RL w