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Tuesday, 16 December 2025

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Regional * Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, criticised the Trump Route (TRIPP) during a meeting with Armenia’s Ambassador to Iran, Grigor Hakobyan, on Monday, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. Velayati said that TRIPP ‘is effectively the same as the Zangezur corridor project’, adding that Tehran ‘is firmly opposed to it’. * Commemorative actions in memory of Aishat Baymuradova, a native of Chechnya who was killed in Yerevan, took place i

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Monday, 15 December 2025

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Regional * Armenian companies interested in importing Azerbaijani fuel have been engaged in ongoing talks with Azerbaijan, Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan told RFE/RL, without disclosing the names of the companies. * The Investigative Committee of Armenia has completed its work with the body of murdered Chechen woman Aishat Baymuradova, who had earlier fled her family due to violence. A request has been sent to Russia for the transfer of the body for burial, but there has still been

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Friday, 12 December 2025

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Regional * On Thursday, Karen Avanesyan, one of the few Armenians who remained in Nagorno-Karabakh, stood trial in Azerbaijan on charges of planning an ‘armed provocation’. * Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians held in Azerbaijan delivered some of their final statements yesterday. Levon Balayan and Garik Martirosyan pleaded not guilty in their statements, Madat Babayan stated that he did not kill anyone but merely fired into the air, and Melikset Pashayan said he did not participate in combat operatio

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Thursday, 11 December 2025

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Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has made an ‘open and public proposal’ to Azerbaijan to ‘adopt a joint roadmap aimed at simultaneously’ putting aside Baku’s ‘western Azerbaijan’ narratives and the return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. ‘Because removing this issue means, from a long-term strategic perspective, eliminating any potential conflict situation’, Pashinyan said. Armenia * Pashinyan’s plane was forced to land in St. Petersburg, instead of Moscow, after circlin

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Wednesday, 10 December 2025

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Regional * Armen Grigoryan, the Armenian Secretary of Security Council, and Azerbaijani Presidential Aide Hikmet Hajiyev gave a joint interview to EuroNews regarding the peace process between the two countries. Grigoryan said that they had confidence that the ‘implementation of regional economic projects will increase interdependency and strengthen peace’. * On Tuesday, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry commented on their concerns regarding the strategic agenda which was signed between Armenia

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Tuesday, 9 December 2025

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Regional * The Armenian Economy Ministry has confirmed that a discussion was held with Tbilisi regarding the possible transit of Azerbaijani fuel to Armenia via Georgia. The Georgian Economy Ministry had stated that it received a request from ‘partner countries’ earlier in December for the transit. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze approved the request and confirmed that no tariffs would be imposed on it. * A native of Chechnya, Aishat Baymuradova, found dead in Yerevan in October, re

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Monday, 8 December 2025

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Regional * US President Donald Trump has written a letter to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, thanking him and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for their joint nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. ‘I am deeply appreciative of your kind recognition, which inspires us to sustain our important mission’, Trump wrote in the letter. * On Saturday, Secretary of the Armenian Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, held a panel discussion with Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmat Hajiye