In a statement issued late on January 28, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said a shoot-out occurred between Azerbaijani forces and a group of Armenian saboteurs along those countries' mutual border.
Baku has again accused Yerevan of violating the cease-fire along the border with Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamadyarov and his Armenian counterpart, Eduard Nalbandian, are preparing to meet in Paris to continue talks on the so-called frozen conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Baku has accused Armenia of violating a cease-fire along the border with Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Two young men became the first victims of Ukraine's Euromaidan protests when they were shot dead on January 22 during violent clashes between protesters and police in Kyiv. RFE/RL profiles the two men that many protesters are calling "true Ukrainian patriots": Serhiy Nihoyan, an ethnic Armenian; and Mikhail Zhyzneuski, a native of Belarus.
Officials in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh say Azerbaijani forces killed one of its soldiers.
Thousands of protesters have massed in Istanbul to demand justice for a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist murdered seven years ago.
The lawyer for the leader of Armenia's nationalist Tsegakron party says her client has ended his 17-day hunger strike while in pretrial detention.
Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of cease-fire violations near the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia's last-minute decision to join a Russian-led customs union at the expense of much closer ties with the European Union has been widely attributed in the West to strong pressure and bullying by Russia. The picture is more complex on closer inspection, however.
Armenia's prime minister says an agreement on his country's joining a Russia-led Customs Union will be ready by May. Meanwhile, Kyrgyzstan's deputy prime minister says a new road map outlining the steps needed for it to join the union will be prepared by spring.
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