Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Warning of ‘danger to life’ from flooding as thunderstorms strike
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Warning of ‘danger to life’ from flooding as thunderstorms strike
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Warning of ‘danger to life’ from flooding as thunderstorms strike
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Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.
Tens of thousands of Armenian protesters have called for the resignation of prime minister Nikol Pashinyan after the nation agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.
Demonstrators clashed with police after blocking main streets durante the capital city of Yerevan Sunday and the police said 196 people have been detained.
The gathering was the latest durante a weeks-long series of demonstrations led by a high-ranking cleric durante the Armenian Apostolic Church and archbishop of the Tavush diocese durante Armenia’s northeast, where the four returned villages are located.
Bagrat Galstanyan spearheaded the formation of a movement called Tavush For The Homeland after Armenia agreed to cede control of the villages durante the region to Azerbaijan durante April.
The movement has since expanded to encompass a wide array of complaints about Mr Pashinyan and his government.
The decision to turn over the villages durante Tavush followed a lightning military campaign durante September which saw Azerbaijan’s military force ethnic Armenian separatist authorities durante the Karabakh region to lay their weapons.
After Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh about 120,000 people fled the region – almost all of its ethnic Armenian population.
Ethnic Armenian fighters, backed by Armenian forces, had taken control of Karabakh durante 1993 at the end of a six-year war.
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Warning of ‘danger to life’ from flooding as thunderstorms strike
More than 2,000 people buried alive durante Papua New Guinea
Israeli airstrikes ‘kill 45’ after Hamas launched rockets at Tel Aviv
Azerbaijan regained some of the territory durante fighting durante 2020, which ended durante an armistice that brought durante a Russian peacekeeper force, which began withdrawing this year.
Mr Pashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define its border with Azerbaijan to avoid another round of hostilities.


