By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, October 14 – The Azerbaijani Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov announced yesterday that Azerbaijan will increase its military spending for 2011. Sharifov submitted the 2011 draft budget and said that the spending in the defense sphere will increase by 89.7 percent to about $3.1 billion. “The 2011 military spending will make up 19.7 [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, September 14 — The press service of the Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) Defense Army categorically denied information spread by Baku concerning the capture of a soldier from Nagorno Karabakh. On September 13, the Azerbaijani media spread information that a covert group consisting of several soldiers supposedly penetrated into the northeastern side of the contact line [...]

By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, September 1– At approximately 6:30 am Yerevan time on Tuesday the Azerbaijani military made another attempt to cross the contact line along Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Azeri armed forces tried to storm the village of Verin Chailu, Artsakh. The Armenian army detected the attempt in time and without delay pushed the enemy back [...]

YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 9—The press service of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday reported a breach of the ceasefire by the Azerbaijani army. According to the report, the violations of the ceasefire were reported in some sections of the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan, from [...]