Armenia has been struck by political unrest since the peace deal to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh was agreed on between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.

According to the deal, Armenia will hand control of several territories to Azerbaijan but the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh is undefined. Russian peacekeepers have already entered Nagorno Karabakh to oversee the deal.

Read all of our coverage of the war including our Voices for Peace series.

Latest stories: 

• Armenia and Azerbaijan agree peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh
• Common Ground: Anti-War Statement
• Opinion | ‘We did not speak, we only whispered’
• Evidence mounts of war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Aliyev and Pashinyan mark ‘red lines’ in interviews with RIA Novosti
• Azerbaijani peace activists called for questioning
• Opinion | On the importance of losing
• Opinion | How I learned not to hate
• Opinion | We are a generation of war
• Opinion | To stand for peace, in spite of everything
• Analysis | A dangerous turn in a 30-year conflict
• Under fire in Stepanakert

 For ease of reading, we choose not to use qualifiers such as ‘de facto’, ‘unrecognised’, or ‘partially recognised’ when discussing institutions or political positions within Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia. This does not imply a position on their status.

Deadline for Armenian forces to leave Kalbajar extended to 25 November

The deadline for Armenian forces to withdraw from the region of Kalbajar (Karvachar) has been extended until 25 November. The deadline had previously been 15 November.

Two groups of Russian peacekeepers will be stationed in and near Dadivank Monastery 

Two groups peacekeepers will be stationed at Dadivank Monastery, one at the entrance to the settlement of Vank, and one at the monastery, Senior Lieutenant Oleg Kovalenko of the Russian peacekeeping forces reportedly told Russian state-run news outlet Sputnik. 

He reportedly told the outlet that the peacekeepers are there with the blessing of the abbot of the monastery, Father Hovhannes. 

My Step MPs will attempt to revoke opposition leader’s MP status

MPs from Armenia’s ruling My Step bloc will be turning to the country’s Constitutional Court with a petition to remove the parliamentary mandate from opposition leader Gagik Tsarukyan. Tsarukyan, one of the country’s richest men, has been under criminal investigation for vote-buying and had been released from police custody during the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Pashinyan gets rid of Minister of Foreign Affairs

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will be relieved of his duties. Shortly thereafter, Mntatsakanyan announced his resignation. 

Pashinyan: Road between Stepanakert and Armenia will open today

Speaking in parliament today, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the road passing through Lachin (Berdzor) that connects the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh with the Republic of Armenia will be open as of today. 

Four MPs leave Armenia’s ruling bloc after PM’s Facebook comments

‘Today I watched dozens of videos of soldiers from the front line, I was struck by the thoughtfulness of the soldiers’, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote on Sunday evening. ‘You, guys, are right. I am waiting for you in Yerevan. To finally resolve the issues of the snivelling people under the walls’.

Armenia’s Human Rights Defender condemned the statement, warning that it could lead to violence. 

Four MPs, Taguhi Tovmasyan, Gayane Abrahamyan, Lusine Badalyan, and head of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office Varag Siseryan, from the ruling My Step bloc, also announced that they were leaving the ruling faction after Pashinyan’s comments. 

Nikol Pashinyan has since attempted to clarify his earlier statements saying that he did not call for soldiers to exercise violence against political opponents. Instead, he said, he meant that returning soldiers will, by telling their stories, dispel any ideas that Armenia ‘military-political leadership’ was involved in any ‘conspiracies’.