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Thursday, 3 July 2025

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Regional * Yesterday, Georgian Giorgi Mosiashvili, who was convicted by Tskhinvali (Tskhinval) for illegally crossing into South Ossetia and poaching, was handed over to Georgia after serving his sentence. According to the South Ossetian Federal Security Service (FSB), Mosiashvili was originally detained on 30 October 2023 near the village of Sinaguri (Sinagur). * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson neither confirmed, nor denied reporting about an allegedly scheduled meetin

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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

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Regional * The Azerbaijani media outlet Minval has released an audio recording purporting to show a Russian officer saying he had been ordered to fire at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet December 2024. The outlet also released what it said was a written statement from the same officer. The jet, which was flying from Baku to Grozny, crash-landed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan has accused Russia of shooting at the plane with air defence systems and causing the crash. Armenia

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Tuesday, 1 July 2025

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Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has received the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas. According to Pashinyan’s office readout, Kallas said the EU and Armenia have never been closer to each other than they are now. Kallas noted the EU’s readiness to further deepen the partnership in all directions. * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced on Monday that the EU and Armenia ‘successfully completed negotiations on the new partnership agenda’, calling it an ‘ambitious document’. The announc

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Monday, 30 June 2025

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Regional * On Friday, the South Ossetian Parliament discussed Georgia’s calls for Syria to withdraw its recognition of South Ossetian independence. South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev told MPs that his ministry is working to ‘neutralise this entire process’, and that they are in contact with the Syrian embassy in Moscow, noting that ‘we have certain developments and a certain optimism’. Dzhioev also highlighted that any work in this direction was being coordinated with Russia and Ab

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Friday, 27 June 2025

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Armenia * Armenian authorities have launched an investigation into a deepfake featuring Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The generated audio appeared to suggest that the raids and arrests on Wednesday were done on the instructions of Pashinyan and that all supporting evidence used to charge the suspects, including audio recordings discussing coup plans attributed to them, were artificially generated. * On Friday morning, Armenian National Security Service (NSS) officers entered the Mother See

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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