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Daily Brief

Friday, 7 February 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with US Vice President JD Vance at the White House yesterday. Pashinyan's office reported that they discussed ties between their countries as well as regional issues. * Pashinyan also met with representatives of the American Heritage Foundation for Strategic Studies, International Republican Institute President Daniel Twining, and delivered a lecture at Georgetown University. * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan wrote on X that Washington a

Daily Brief

Thursday, 6 February 2025

by OC Media

•2 min read

Armenia * The authorities have detained four Yerevan City Hall officials as a ‘preventive measure’. Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee confirmed reports of the detentions to CivilNet, but did not reveal why they were detained. Those detained are Robert Darbinyan, the former head of the Yerevan Department of Urban Development and Land Control, Mikael Ghimoyan, another official from the same department, Aram Gyulzadyan, the head of the Public Order Protection Service. Azerbaijan * Sevinj Va

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * The striking employees of the Zangezur mine met with the company’s management yesterday, but failed to reach an agreement. The employees called the meeting ‘quite constructive’, telling RFE/RL that the sides have ‘bilateral contact’ and would have meetings in case of new proposals or changes in their respective positions. Meanwhile, they would continue their strike and ‘probably move on to the next step we planned, which is greater public pressure’. * Yesterday in Washington, Prime

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

Regional * The EU’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus Magdalena Grono has told Armenpress she had heard ‘encouraging statements regarding peace and stability’ from Baku. She said that the statements she heard were ‘often different from what we have heard in the public space’. Armenia * RFE/RL has reported that 2,448 out of 4,600 Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine employees voted in favour of demands to increase their salary and improve their working conditions. Employees of