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Friday, 17 October 2025

Armenia * Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee has arrested the former mayor of Ijevan, Varuzhan Nersisyan, and his son as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. In a written response to news.am, the committee confirmed that Nersisyan was detained on charges of money laundering and abuse of official authority. According to news.am’s sources, the case concerns the alleged illegal allocation of land in Ijevan. * The EU’s investments in Armenia are expected to reach €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion

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As Azerbaijan and Russia apparently make up, have we learned anything?

After almost a year of plummeting relations, Azerbaijan and Russia seem like they have ended their very public beef. At a meeting in Dushanbe earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised, on camera, to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for the deadly Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane crash in December 2024 — the incident that had set off the chain of escalating tit-for-tat actions between Moscow and Baku. In a delicately-worded admission of guilt, Putin acknowledged that the

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Thursday, 16 October 2025

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