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Russia Accuses Armenia of Further Damaging Ties

par This Is Beirut, 28/03 20:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Russia on Thursday accused Armenia of trying to rupture increasingly strained ties between the two ex-Soviet countries, as Yerevan voices mounting criticism of Moscow's role as regional security guarantor. The small Caucasus nation has been in a decades-long standoff with its neighbour and rival Azerbaijan, and has repeatedly accused Moscow of ...

Azerbaijan has "Completed Ethnic Cleansing", Says Armenia at ICJ

par This Is Beirut, 16/04 22:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Azerbaijan has "completed ethnic cleansing", says Armenia to the ICJ on Tuesday, in the latest legal clash over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia accused bitter rival Azerbaijan of having "completed ethnic cleansing" in the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but told the UN's top court Tuesday it was committed to seeking peace with ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan Agree to Begin Demarcating Their Border

par This Is Beirut, 23/04 13:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Armenia and Azerbaijan started settling their border dispute on Tuesday in an effort to normalize relations following Azerbaijan's capture of Nagorno-Karabakh last year. Armenia and Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday that they had started fixing their border, as part of normalization efforts between the arch foes that had been locked in a ...

Armenia Detains Protestors Opposing Azerbaijan Land Concession

par This Is Beirut, 13/05 11:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Armenian police said on Monday that they had detained dozens of people attempting to block streets in the capital, Yerevan, as part of protests against government plans to concede land to Azerbaijan. Armenia has agreed to hand over territory it has controlled since the 1990s and has started border delimitation efforts in a bid to secure an ...

Iran Denies Foul Play in Raisi Helicopter Crash

par This Is Beirut, 24/05 12:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran's army has so far found no evidence of criminal activity in a helicopter crash that killed the country's President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others, state media reported. Raisi, 63 years, died on Sunday after his helicopter went down in the country's mountainous northwest, while returning from a dam inauguration on the border with ...

Armenia Returns Four Villages to Azerbaijan, in Normalization Move

par This Is Beirut, 24/05 19:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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In a key step towards normalizing ties between the historic rivals, Armenia has returned four border villages it seized decades ago to Azerbaijan. The move, which has sparked protracted protests in Armenia, represents an important move towards reaching a comprehensive peace agreement after years of fruitless talks mediated by Russia and Western ...

Armenia Detains 273 Protestors Opposed to Territorial Concessions

par This Is Beirut, 27/05 14:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Armenia said on Monday that police had detained hundreds of demonstrators demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over territorial concessions made to Azerbaijan. Pashinyan's position remains unshaken, despite the challenge mounted by charismatic archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who is trying to launch an impeachment process ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan to Hold US-Mediated Peace Talks

par This Is Beirut, 10/07 19:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet Wednesday in Washington for a fresh round of US-mediated talks, Yerevan and Washington announced, as the arch-foe neighbors negotiate a peace agreement. The Caucasus rivals fought two wars -- in the 1990s and in 2020 -- over control of Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, which had ...

Leclerc Crashes as Verstappen Heads Opening Practice in Azerbaijan

par This Is Beirut, 13/09 16:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Max Verstappen topped the times for Red Bull ahead of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in Friday's crash-marred opening free practice at this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The three-time world champion and series leader clocked a best lap in one minute and 45.546 seconds in the final seconds of a stop-start-stop session of frequent interruptions on a ...

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