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Security personnel restricted access to the Armenian village of Sotk after reports of fresh gunfire exchanges along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border on May 11. Both sides blamed each other for the outburst of violence in which Azerbaijan said one of its soldiers was killed.
The United States on May 11 urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to seize peace initiatives after the two sides reported fresh gunfire exchanges along their common border.
The European Council says the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in Brussels on May 14 as they continue talks to work out a peace agreement.
In an interview with RFE/RL's Armenian Service in Prague on May 5, Pashinian said the gap between Baku and Yerevan's positions had shrunk only negligibly.
Armenia’s population is just below 3 million people, data from the census conducted in October shows.
A U.S.-hosted meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan has begun in Washington as part of an effort to quell tensions over a checkpoint that Baku recently set up on the only road leading to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will arrive on a working visit to Washington on April 30, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ani Badalian said.
Russia has appointed a new head of its peacekeeping force in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as tensions remain high between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Lachin Corridor, the only road connecting the mostly Armenian-populated region with Armenia.
Armenian Gevorg Margarian, 27, was nearing the end of a prison term in Russia when his family was informed by text message that he had died in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Human rights groups say migrants in Russian jails are deliberately targeted to fight in Ukraine.
Azerbaijan is setting up a checkpoint near its border with Armenia. Azerbaijani troops and Russian peacekeepers were present amid the construction work on April 23. EU observers monitored the events from Armenian territory.
Azerbaijan and Armenia exchanged accusations on April 23 over alleged military supplies and the appearance of checkpoints in a sensitive region around the Caucasus foes' shared border.
Armenia has approved a draft amendment to the law on military service that would allow women to serve in the country's armed forces on a voluntary basis.
Officials in Baku say Azerbaijani athletes will boycott the European Weightlifting Championships in the Armenian capital of Yerevan and return home after an Azerbaijani flag was set afire by an apparent intruder at an opening ceremony late on April 14.
Residents in the Armenian village of Tegh are worried that violence along the Azerbaijani border could escalate further after a deadly skirmish between soldiers from both countries. The Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministries reported a total of seven deaths among members of their armed forces.
The defense ministries of Armenia and Azerbaijan reported a total of seven deaths in renewed fighting at one of the sections of the restive border between the two South Caucasus nations.
The son of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Ashot Pashinian, has denied reports that he was attacked.
Russia has banned imports of dairy products from Armenia allegedly on health issues as relations between the two allied nations sour.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused Azerbaijan of violating a Moscow-brokered cease-fire agreement by allowing its troops to cross over a set demarcation line.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has offered support in facilitating bilateral peace discussions with Azerbaijan in a phone call on March 20 with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Armenia's Defense Ministry has rejected as "untrue" an accusation from Caucasus archfoe Azerbaijan that Yerevan is transporting military equipment to the Nagorno-Karabakh region via ground routes bypassing the Lachin Corridor at the heart of a monthslong blockade widely blamed on Baku.
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