Armenia–Russia Relations
PM Pashinyan sits out CIS summit after testing positive for COVID-19
Pashinyan might still take part in a Eurasian Economic Union summit in Saint Petersburg this week.
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Azerbaijan
Opinion | Four years of entrapment: why Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed
Four years since the coronavirus pandemic began, Azerbaijan’s land borders remain closed to all civilian traffic. While officially this is to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a number of theories exist regarding the real reason behind the measure. In the spring of 2020, Azerbaijan followed the example of many other countries, closing its land borders to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus, alongside a host of other preventive measures. Later the same year, the Second Nagorno-Kar
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan extends ‘COVID-19’ border closure until April
Azerbaijan has extended the closure of its land borders to ‘prevent the spread of COVID-19’ until April, despite dropping most COVID-related restrictions, including air travel. Azerbaijan has been extending the closure of its borders since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. The country has since dropped all other anti-pandemic measures, including the use of facemasks and vaccination certificates, and has allowed Azerbaijanis and foreign nationals to enter the country by air without PCR
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani Georgians appeal to Aliyev to open border
Over a thousand people, mostly Georgian ethnic Azerbaijanis, have signed an online petition calling on Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev to restore at least limited movement across the Georgian-Azerbaijani land border. The petition was launched by Samira Bayramova, a civil activist based in Marneuli, southern Georgia. Georgia’s population of ethnic Azerbaijanis numbers more than 230,000, constituting the largest (6%) ethnic minority group in Georgia, most living in the southeast of the
Azerbaijan
Three years since the COVID outbreak, Azerbaijanis still cannot cross their border
Three years after Azerbaijan closed its land borders in response to the coronavirus pandemic, those borders remain closed. But what did their closure mean for Azerbaijan’s people and government? Shahin Valiyev’s final years in life were marked by displacement, fear over the COVID-19 pandemic, and an inability to return home to Azerbaijan. Shortly after the pandemic made headlines around the world in 2020, Azerbaijan closed its land borders. Many Azerbaijanis studying or working in neighbou
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake
Azerbaijanis killed in Turkey quake ‘could have survived if border was open’
An Azerbaijani studying in Turkey has claimed that four other students who died in the Turkey–Syria earthquake would have been at home in Azerbaijan when the quake struck, had the country’s land borders not still been closed ‘due to COVID-19’. In a post on Facebook on Wednesday, Ibrahim Ibrahimov, a student at the Malatya Inonu University, blamed both the ongoing border closure and the ‘outragous’ prices of the country’s national carrier for their deaths. On 14 February, the bodies of Nazarz
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UNM leadership contender threatens to break Saakashvili out of jail
One of the contenders for leadership of Georgia’s opposition United National Movement (UNM) party has threatened to break Mikheil Saakashvili out of jail after the former president contracted COVID-19. Speaking to TV Pirveli on Tuesday, Levan Khabeishvili said that if necessary, he would ‘physically’ free Saakashvili from custody. Khabeishvili is challenging Nika Melia’s leadership of the country’s largest opposition party, a party founded by Saakashvili. Khabeishvili’s comments came as re
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