Nagorno-Karabakh ‘Emergency’

MOSCOW — Soviet authorities declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew in the troubled Transcaucasian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh today, following renewed violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the disputed territory.

The official press agency Tass said Kremlin envoy Arkady Volsky, charged in July with the task of restoring order to the two Soviet republics after five months of ethnic unrest, announced the measures in a television and radio address. Tass said the new measures followed clashes between Armenians and Azerbaijanis Tuesday night during which houses and cars were set on fire. It said there had been no casualties.