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More incidents between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia says it repulsed an Azerbaijani incursion on Sunday afternoon.
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More incidents between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia says it repulsed an Azerbaijani incursion on Sunday afternoon.
12 January 2015
Armenia says it repulsed an Azerbaijani incursion on Sunday afternoon. It said one Armenian civilian was killed, and that Azerbaijan also suffered casualties.
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2015 starts with deaths, despair and disinformation for Karabakh issue.
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2015 starts with deaths, despair and disinformation for Karabakh issue.
7 January 2015
It is difficult to remember a year which started so badly on the front line of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the last twenty years.
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Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of using heavy weapons in conflict zone
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Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of using heavy weapons in conflict zone
5 January 2015
Azerbaijan says that Armenia has fired grenade launchers and mortars towards various villages during 64 cease-fire violations on the night of 3-4 January.
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Armenia reports first incidents and deaths of 2015 in Karabakh
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Armenia reports first incidents and deaths of 2015 in Karabakh
3 January 2015
Armenian sources say two of its soldiers were killed and one injured whilst repelling an Azerbaijani incursion. Azerbaijani has denied it also suffered casualties.
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New Year messages highlight differences in South Caucasus. In televised broadcasts leaders struck a distinctly different tone.
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New Year messages highlight differences in South Caucasus. In televised broadcasts leaders struck a distinctly different tone.
1 January 2015
Leaders addressed their compatriots on the occasion of the new year in televised broadcasts that struck a distinctly different tone.
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Abkhazia rejects claims it is being annexed by Russia. Deputy Foreign Minister tells commonspace.eu treaty is not about annexation
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Abkhazia rejects claims it is being annexed by Russia. Deputy Foreign Minister tells commonspace.eu treaty is not about annexation
29 December 2014
Abkhaz Deputy Foreign Minister, Kan Taniya, tells commonspace.eu the new treaty with Russia has nothing to do with annexation.
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Vahan Hovhannisian - a rare type of Armenian politician who combined political astuteness and resolve, with great personal charm and wit.
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Vahan Hovhannisian - a rare type of Armenian politician who combined political astuteness and resolve, with great personal charm and wit.
29 December 2014
Vahan Hovhannisian was a rare type of Armenian politician who combined political astuteness and resolve, with great personal charm and wit.
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Arms race in the Caucasus reaches alarming proportions. Armenia is placed 3rd and Azerbaijan 10th in study on global militarisation for 2014.
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Arms race in the Caucasus reaches alarming proportions. Armenia is placed 3rd and Azerbaijan 10th in study on global militarisation for 2014.
24 December 2014
In a report by a Bonn based institute Armenia is placed third and Azerbaijan tenth in the study on global militarisation for 2014.
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Report on Conference on Karabakh held in Oxford in November published.
19 December 2014
A spokesperson for LINKS, one of the organisers of the event, said "We very much hope that Governments in the region, the international community, and civil society, will study these ideas and take at least some of them forward in 2015"