Yerevan, Armenia

Outrage over peace deal: Armenians stormed their National Assembly in anger this week over a Russian-brokered peace deal to end a six-week conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Rioters beat up Assembly President Ararat Mirzoyan so badly that he required surgery, and they surrounded the home of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, shouting, “Where is that traitor?” Armenia was losing the fight badly in Nagorno-Karabakh—which is recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a 1994 truce—and the peace deal makes that clear. It allows Azerbaijan to keep parts of Nagorno-Karabakh that it captured, and requires Armenia to also give up some areas outside the enclave that it had claimed in a previous war. The outcome is a victory for Turkey, which strongly backed Azerbaijan.