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Thursday, 20 February 2025

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Armenia * The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly—Vanadzor has said that a Russian national was informed by Armenian police that a case was launched against him in Russia. The assembly’s lawyer was present during the meeting between the Russian national, Roman Shklover, and the police. They say that representatives of the Russian police ‘broke into’ the police department and attempted to persuade Shklover to ‘to voluntarily go with them and surrender’ to Russia, with promises that ‘everything will be

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Wednesday, 19 February 2025

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Armenia * On Tuesday, Tiran Khachatryan, a detained former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, was released on a bail of ֏10 million ($25,000) and given a travel ban. Khachatryan was arrested in January and sentenced to two months of pre-trial detention on charges of demonstrating a negligent attitude towards the performance of his official duties during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Azerbaijan * Yesterday, AbzasMedia’s imprisoned staff once again refused to attend th

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Tuesday, 18 February 2025

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Regional * RFE/RL has reported that the Armenian Community of Abkhazia has demanded the authorities protect them, after a recording surfaced on the internet in which Abkhazians called ‘for the persecution of ethnic Armenian citizens of Abkhazia for their political choice’ during the recent presidential elections. Later on Monday, the honorary representative of the Armenian community of Abkhazia, Khachik Minasyan, received one of the recording participants, Acting President Valery Bganba’s neph

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Friday, 14 February 2025

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Armenia * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Defence Minister Suren Papikyan have left for Munich to participate in the Munich Security Conference, where they are scheduled to have bilateral meetings with their counterparts. * Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan has disagreed that the peace talks with Azerbaijan have entered a deadlock, noting that a session of the delimitation commissions took place, and that there is an agreement that a new session will take place soon

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