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Daily Brief

Thursday, 2 April 2026

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * Yesterday, at the International Forum on Transport and Logistics, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev announced that the capacity of border crossings with Azerbaijan had increased five fold. He said that in 2025, along the North–South corridor were transported over 21 million tonnes of cargo and the corridor decreased average delivery times from 33 to 16 days. * Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz has stated that the opening of Turkey and Azerbaijan’s borders with Armeni

Georgian police disperse protesters during an anti-government demonstration in Tbilisi in December 2024. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

Georgian Dream

Explainer | The legislative changes that have shaped Georgia’s authoritarian slide

by OC Media

•27 min read

The sheer number of laws passed in recent months have overwhelmed observers and media outlets alike.

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 1 April 2026

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan expressed hope that established peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan ‘will also put an end to fabricated claims and eliminate hate speech’. The statement came in reponse to an Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry statement regarding what they call ‘the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis’, referring to the massacres of Azerbaijanis by Armenians during a period of internecine violence in 1918. Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will

Georgia

Kobakhidze speaks to Marco Rubio, marking highest-level Georgia–US talks in years

by OC Media

•2 min read

The call comes as US President Donald Trump signed an extension on the Biden-era sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * Five people have been arrested in Armenia in connection with alleged election-related bribery linked to Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia party. According to the Anti-Corruption Committee, the bribes were ‘formulated as a salary, thereby trying to conceal the fact of providing electoral bribes’. The party denied the accusations, describing the secretly recorded phone calls as fiction. * Yesterday, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan had a phone conversation wit

Daily Brief

Monday, 30 March 2026

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * In Chechnya and Daghestan, a state of emergency has been introduced due to heavy rainfall, downpours in the mountains, and precipitation in the form of rain and wet snow. Local public channels report rockfalls on a federal highway, destruction of homes, damage to bridges, power outages, and restrictions on traffic. Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the flooding of residential buildings. Neighbouring republics have also been affected. A ‘high alert regime’ due to precipi

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