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Friday, 17 April 2026

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Regional * Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan said in his speech at the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Turkey that the release of 19 Armenian detainees held in Azerbaijan and clarification of the fate of missing people should be achieved in order to ‘achieve genuine reconciliation’. * A meeting between Simonyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahiba Gafarova has begun in Istanbul. APA wrote that the meeting is taking place within the framework of the 152nd session of t

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Thursday, 16 April 2026

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Regional * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that ‘despite the complex international situation’, the TRIPP project remains ‘priority’ for the governments of Armenia, the US, and Azerbaijan. * Russia and Azerbaijan have reached an agreement in which Moscow will pay compensation to the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines crash, which was mistakenly downed by a Russian anti-air missile in December 2024. The agreement comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Aze

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Wednesday, 15 April 2026

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Regional * A criminal case regarding the death of North Ossetian man Oleg Gusov, who reportedly died in 2024 after drinking contaminated water from the Armenian company Jermuk, has been reopened in Russia. Armenia * Two members of Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan’s party, Gohar Ghumashyan and Verzhine Stepanyan, have been placed under administrative supervision following their arrests on Tuesday. Ghumashyan’s case concerns an alleged violation of the ban on charity during the

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Tuesday, 14 April 2026

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Regional * Today, 22 freight wagons of Russian diesel were shipped from Azerbaijan to Armenia. In addition, APA wrote that four freight wagons of fertilizer, ‘totaling 240 tonnes, were shipped from Russia via Azerbaijan to Armenia’. Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with major business representatives of Armenia yesterday. He suggested that the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan has created ‘horizons’ for Armenia which it ‘never had in its history’, adding that the mes

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Monday, 13 April 2026

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Georgia * Both Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party and the opposition have congratulated Péter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party that won Hungary’s parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, whose government had been closely aligned with Orbán, thanked the defeated side for supporting Georgia’s ‘national interests’, while the opposition alliance stated that Tisza’s victory represents ‘a clear and firm choice by the Hungarian people in support of democracy’. * The Georgia

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Friday, 10 April 2026

by Robin Fabbro

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Regional * The Trump Route ‘remains a top priority’ for the US and the administration of President Donald Trump ‘remains committed to making TRIPP a reality’, a State Department spokesperson told the state-run media outlet Armenpress. * Suspects in the murder of Aishat Baimuradova, a woman killed in Yerevan after fleeing her family in Chechnya, have been placed on the wanted list in Russia. Both are wanted under a criminal article, although its number is not specified in the records. At the s

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Thursday, 9 April 2026

by OC Media

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Regional * Kazakh Foreign Minister Yermek Kosherbayev will meet with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan today in Yerevan. The delegation, which includes Transportation Minister Nurlan Sauranbayev, previously held talks in Baku, including with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Armenia * Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has suggested that any Armenian official threatening to leave the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Collective Security Treaty Organ