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Thursday, 26 June 2025

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Regional * Russia hopes that there will be no new escalation between Yerevan and Baku, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has stated. According to Russian state-run media outlet TASS, the comment came in response to media publications citing the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who accused Armenia of committing war crimes. Armenia * Yerevan courts have ruled to remand Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan and 14 others in pre-trial detention for two months. On Wednesday, Armenian au

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Wednesday, 25 June 2025

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Armenia * Since Wednesday morning, searches have been underway in the homes of opposition members, including Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, following which Galstanyan and two others were detained by the Armenian Security Service. * Reports of the searches follow a statement of the Investigative Committee, which said that it had thwarted ‘terrorist attacks and a coup d’état’, which was allegedly led by Galstanyan. Authorities said that over 1,000 individuals had been recruited since January 202

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Tuesday, 24 June 2025

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Regional * Georgia has apparently agreed to release Armenian lorries loaded with brandy after barring their transit through its territory. Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan said the lorries were allowed through Georgian customs on Monday. * The Armenian Foreign Ministry released a statement, saying that it was ‘deeply disappointed with the distorted and extremely one-sided formulations included in the “Istanbul Declaration” and the resolutions proposed by Azerbaijan’, adopted by the Or

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Monday, 23 June 2025

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Regional * On Friday, Armenia reported a house was damaged in Nerkin Hand, Syunik as a result of Azerbaijani fire. They published footage showing the damage and urged Azerbaijan to conduct an investigation into the incident. Armenia * On Friday, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. According to the Prime Minister’s office, they discussed the Armenia–Turkey normalisation process, ‘emphasised the importance of continuing constructive dialogue and ac

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Friday, 20 June 2025

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Regional * Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have visited Armenian detainees in Azerbaijan. The ICRC told Azerbaijani pro-government APA that the prisoners ‘received family parcels, were met in private and were given a possibility to receive family news’. In turn, APA noted that on 17 June, the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages, and Missing Persons announced it would soon suspend the activities of the ICRC Representation in Azerbaijan. Armeni

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Thursday, 19 June 2025

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Armenia * Russian–Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been placed under two months of pre-trial detention. On Wednesday, Karapetyan was charged with ‘public calls for the usurpation of power [...]’. Before that, his home in Yerevan was raided following his statements in defence of the Armenian Apostolic Church amidst ongoing tensions between it and the government, saying that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian Foreign Minister

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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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Armenia * Karapetyan’s house in Yerevan was searched on Tuesday evening for several hours and he was escorted out of his house in the night by law enforcement officers. The searches followed his pro-church statement in an interview with News.am, Karapetyan said that ‘if the politicians fail, then we will participate in our own way in all of this’. * Armenian–Russian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan has been charged with public calls to seize power, according to his lawyer Armen Feroyan. Feroyan