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Daily Brief

Thursday, 2 January 2025

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Azerbaijan * A customs official was detained for allegedly attempting to smuggle four kilogrammes of gold out of Azerbaijan. Afsar Mirzaliyev, who works for the State Customs Committee’s Anti-Smuggling Department, was detained at Baku airport. * President Ilham Aliyev’s cousin, Izzatkhanim Javadova, was arrested near Athens, Greece, on drug charges. Javadova, also known as Michaela Jav, is Aliyev’s first cousin. She is also a DJ. She was arrested in a drug bust at a party she was reportedly o

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 1 January 2024

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Armenia * Foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan yesterday held a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan. They discussed bilateral and international issues of mutual interest. * In his congratulatory message on New Year’s Eve, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the formation of the ideology of ‘Real Armenia’ in 2024 was a ‘turning point for our history’. Pashinyan said that the without the ideology of ‘Real Armenia’ — a reference to the modern state of Armenia, as opposed to ‘Hist

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 31 December 2024

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Armenia * Armenian border guards have taken over the Agarak checkpoint on the border with Iran from Russian border guards. Russia’s guards have manned the checkpoint since Armenia’s independence in 1991. * Russian police in Moscow have briefly detained former Armenian Defence Minister Arshak Karapetyan on Armenia’s request. Karapetyan, who served as minister for three months in 2021, is wanted in Armenia on charges of abuse of authority and power, exceeding the limits of his authority, not pe

Daily Brief

Friday, 27 December 2024

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Armenia * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka got into an argument during yesterday’s session of the Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) Council, which Pashinyan attended remotely after testing positive for COVID-19. During the meeting, Lukashenka joked that Pashinyan was a ‘new and younger’ member of the organisation because he had shaved his beard, after which Pashinyan announced that Armenia would also attend next year’s meeting, set to be held