Nagorno-Karabakh updates: 70,500 refugees have crossed into Armenia

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• About 70,500 refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia in a matter of days after Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive, according to Yerevan. That’s about 85 percent of the 120,000 ethnic Armenians who had lived in the troubled enclave until last week.
• Capitulating to Azerbaijan, the unrecognised president of the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Samvel Shahramanyan, has signed a decree to dissolve all state institutions from January 1, 2024.
• Azerbaijan has launched several criminal cases against Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of government of the breakaway region, the Azerbaijani security service says.
• Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Armenians fleeing have nothing to fear, essentially rejecting Armenia’s claims of “ethnic cleansing”.