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Daily Brief

Monday, 20 April 2026

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Regional * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said Kyiv had finalised agreements to provide drone interceptors and technology with three countries, and that Ukraine has ‘requests from 11 countries — the Middle East and the Gulf, plus we’re also gradually turning our attention to the Caucasus’. Zelenskyi did not specify which country he was referring to in the Caucasus. Armenia * The house arrest of Strong Armenia party leader Samvel Karapetyan has been extended for another three month

Daily Brief

Friday, 17 April 2026

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Regional * Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan said in his speech at the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Turkey that the release of 19 Armenian detainees held in Azerbaijan and clarification of the fate of missing people should be achieved in order to ‘achieve genuine reconciliation’. * A meeting between Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova has begun in Istanbul. APA wrote that the meeting is taking place within the framework of the 152nd session of t

Daily Brief

Thursday, 16 April 2026

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Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that ‘despite the complex international situation’, the TRIPP project remains ‘priority’ for the governments of Armenia, the US, and  Azerbaijan. * Russia and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement in which Moscow will pay compensation to the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash, which was mistakenly downed by a Russian anti-air missile in December 2024. The agreement comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Aze

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