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Friday, 6 June 2025

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Regional * The Russian Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) will open a robotics centre in Abkhazia and Armenia, among other places. Agency head Yevgeny Primakov stated that the centres would use modern equipment to teach youth computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and robotics. * On Friday, the Armenian National Security Service (NSS) reported that two minors from Syunik, born in 2007 and 2008, got lost and ended u

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Thursday, 5 June 2025

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Regional * Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan told reporters that on Friday the Georgian Minister of Agriculture would visit Yerevan. According to Papoyan, the unresolved exports of Armenian brandy through Georgia would be the main topic on their agenda. Papoyan also expressed his intention to ‘organise meetings in different formats on that day, [...] so that we don’t leave the room until we find a solution to the problem’. * The director of the Armenian National Security Service (NSS),

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Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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Regional * Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Alen Simonyan met with his Georgian counterpart, Shalva Papuashvili, during a working visit to Georgia at Papuashvili’s invitation. ‘A large scope of issues on inter-parliamentary cooperation was discussed’, Armenian Parliament’s readout said. * On Wednesday, the Armenian National Security Service announced that representatives of the Armenian and Azerbaijani commissions on missing persons have held a meeting, without providing additional information

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Tuesday, 3 June 2025

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Armenia * During the ongoing Armenia–France decentralised cooperation forum taking place in Goris, French Ambassador Olivier Decotigny highlighted the importance of French presence in Goris. ‘The French state and society continue to stand by you, and what we are building together is not just technical cooperation, not just friendship, but a real lever in terms of influencing the situation, supporting Armenia and working for peace’, he said. * In turn, Armenian Ambassador to France Arman Khach

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Monday, 2 June 2025

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Armenia * On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held separate phone calls with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and congratulated him on his 50th birthday. * On Friday, Pashinyan received a delegation led by US Senator Steve Daines. The Prime Minister’s office stated that they discussed ‘prospects for the development of Armenia–US relations, the continued strengthening of democratic institutions, the expansion of economic cooperati

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Friday, 30 May 2025

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Regional * Armenia accused Azerbaijan of damaging the eight residential buildings in border villages on Thursday night. It claimed that Azerbaijani fire ‘fatally wound[ed] a small [animal]’, presumably livestock. * Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said upon his return from Azerbaijan, that they ‘wish’ that the peace process ‘will be accomplished at the earliest time’ between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Erdoğan said they were ‘very happy to see looming peace’ and meanwhile they ‘offer [t

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Thursday, 29 May 2025

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Regional * On 26 May, Azerbaijani citizens Hasan Azizov and Namaz Tahmazli were detained while attempting to avoid criminal liability in Georgia by ‘illegally crossing the state border along the Ingur River’ into Abkhazia, the Russian Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported. The department’s press service also reported that the FSB detained a group of foreigners at the same place earlier in May, including ‘Turkish citizens Selcuk Guren, who is wanted international