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Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian found guilty of espionage

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•1 min read

A former Nagorno-Karabakh official, detained on espionage charges following his move to Armenia months after the region’s surrender, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. On Friday evening, the prosecutor’s office commented on the court’s decision to Armenpress, and said the office was planning to appeal it and instead seek life imprisonment. According to the charges, Sargis Galstyan was contacted by the intelligence services of a foreign country, [Azerbaijan] in November 2020 and ag

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Armenian government cuts aid to Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

The Armenian government has modified the social assistance program offered to displaced Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, reducing monthly assistance as well as the beneficiary groups listed, and redirecting the resources to a housing assistance programme criticised by the beneficiaries. The decision was adopted on Thursday, according to which assistance salaries will be reduced from ֏50,000 ($130) to ֏40,000 ($100) as of April 2025. Aid will again be reduced to ֏30,000 ($80) starting in July, and l

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Trump blames Harris for inaction during displacement of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, of inaction as Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population was displaced following Azerbaijan’s final assault on the region. ‘Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh’, wrote former US President Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday. ‘When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I

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Armenia extends protection status for Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

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Armenia has extended the protection status for Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, without which they would not be able to leave the country. On Thursday, the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the status of protection granted to Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians was extended until 31 December 2025, with the possibility of further extension. This status was given to over 100,000 Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians who did not apply for Armenian citizenship following the mass displacement in 2023.

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Man charged with hooliganism after throwing apple at Prime Minister Pashinyan

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

Albert Arustamyan, a 71-year-old resident of Yerevan’s Zeytun district, has been charged with hooliganism after reportedly throwing an apple towards Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a sign of protest. The episode occurred on 23 August during a visit by Pashinyan to one of his relatives living in the same building. Eyewitnesses told RFE/RL that the apple did not hit Pashinyan, but that emergency services were still called to the scene. ‘Neighbourhood children say that Nikol Pashi

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Armenian police ‘beat and insult’ Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

Armenian police have been accused of assaulting, insulting, and pepper spraying a Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian whilst detaining him for a parking violation last week. On 1 August, Roman Yeritsyan, a lawyer from Nagorno-Karabakh, published a video on Facebook stating that his brother, Aram Yeritsyan, was ‘severely beaten’ by 10 police officers as he was being detained. Yeritsyan has since published photos of injuries his brother received, stating that his brother sustained a broken hand, broken fi

PM Nikol Pashinyan at the Parliament. Photo: primeminister.am

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Pashinyan accused of hate speech towards Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

The former Human Rights Defenders of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia have condemned what they called ‘hate speech’ towards Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. On 12 June, Pashinyan accused Armenia’s opposition of ‘not caring’ about the fate of Nagorno-Karabakh, and that they needed the Armenian population of the region to support them and keep them in power. In a speech in parliament, he accused the opposition of bribing Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to join the anti-gove