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Armenia * Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan has claimed that Georgia has allowed the Armenian lorries carrying brandies through to Russia. He claimed that the issue, which has been ongoing for nearly a month, had finally been ‘resolved’, and that more than 96% of lorries held up in Georgia were allowed to cross the border into Russia. * A court in Yerevan has found Aram Navasardyan, who hit and killed a pregnant woman while leading Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s motorcade in 2022, guilty. The
Regional * Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the proposed so-called ‘Zangezur corridor’ ‘is pursued as a cover for broader geopolitical projects’. According to him, the primary goal of which was to ‘weaken the Axis of Resistance [referring to Iran’s regional network of proxies], sever Iran’s link with the Caucasus, and impose a land blockade on Iran and Russia in the region’s south’. Armenia * Armenia had not only not accepted t
Armenia * The authorities are investigating the death of a conscripted border guard as a suicide, saying he was negligently driven to kill himself. Azerbaijan * The health condition of the imprisoned director of Abzas Media, Ulvi Hasanli, is rapidly deteriorating as he enters the eighth day of his hunger strike. His wife, Rubaba Guliyeva, wrote on social media saying that his blood pressure was high, and that he had lost seven kilograms since beginning his hunger strike. Hasanli is current
Regional * Nearly 90 members of the US Congress are calling on the Trump administration to ensure the safe return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 87 members of Congress from both the Democratic and Republican parties write that the return of Nagorno-Karabakh residents is consistent with international law and the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the region. * Yesterday, Azerbaijani pro-government NGOs criticised the letter, calling i
