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Regional * Yesterday, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry reported that joint search and rescue exercises were carried out by Iranian Navy vessels in Azerbaijan’s territorial waters. The ministry said the objective of the joint exercise was to ensure security and cooperation in the Caspian Sea. Armenia * The head of the Aragatsotn Diocese, Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, has been arrested and placed in pre-trial detention for two months on charges of obstructing electoral rights and coercing people
Regional * The ECHR has ordered Russia to pay €253 million ($295 million) in compensation to more than 29,000 Georgian citizens in the so-called borderisation case. The case concerned a process that began after the August 2008 War, which, as the court noted, involved blocking people from crossing into and from Georgia from South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The ECHR had already determined the violation in April 2025, but it has now announced the amount of compensation. Russia, for its part, has stopp
Regional * Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met on the sidelines of the Gaza summit in Egypt yesterday. * During the same summit, US President Donald Trump again praised himself for ‘solving’ the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict. ‘You still get along with each other, right? [They] fought for 32 years, but we solved the issue in about an hour, right? And now they like each other’, Trump said, before in turn, praising Aliyev: ‘He is a very strong leader,
Regional * Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are taking part in the Middle East Peace Summit in Egypt today at the invitation of US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to the Egyptian presidency, the summit’s aim is to ‘end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security and stability’. Armenia * Finland’s Foreign M
