Reuters
Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh, has been on hunger strike for the past two weeks in Azerbaijan, where he is imprisoned and awaiting trial, his family said on Friday. Vardanyan, an Armenian-born billionaire banker who made his fortune in Russia, was head of the Karabakh Armenian government from November 2022 to February 2023. He was arrested by Azerbaijani forces in September 2023, along with several other senior Karabakh officials while attempting to cross into Armenia.