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Donald Trump campaigning in Florida in July 2024. Image via Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

Armenia

How a Trump presidency could impact the South Caucasus

by Nate Ostiller

•11 min read

US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed foreign policy positions have often been vague, but can generally be understood as being based on a larger pivot toward isolationism. US disengagement from the South Caucasus, or an actual policy of tacit approval for authoritarianism, will redefine Washington’s role in the region. Trump is not known for his detailed foreign policy positions in general, and much less when it comes to the regions of the world considered more peripheral to US interes

Observers highlighted irregularities in the inking of voters’ hands, which is meant to prevent people from voting multiple times. Image: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

2024 Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Georgian Election Commission calls on prosecutor to investigate claims of voter fraud

by OC Media

•4 min read

Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has called on the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the widespread claims of electoral fraud in Saturday’s elections. On Tuesday evening, the CEC proposed that the General Prosecutor’s Office investigate whether claims of electoral fraud made by President Salome Zourabichvili, other politicians, and ‘interested persons’ were true. ‘It is necessary to conduct a complex and objective investigation, which is beyond the competence of the election admi

Donald Trump

Trump blames Harris for inaction during displacement of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, of inaction as Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian population was displaced following Azerbaijan’s final assault on the region. ‘Kamala Harris did NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced in Artsakh’, wrote former US President Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Wednesday. ‘When I am President, I will protect persecuted Christians, I

Azerbaijan

Biden calls on Aliyev to finalise peace agreement before 2025

by Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning

•2 min read

US President Joe Biden has encouraged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to finalise a peace agreement with Armenia before the end of 2024. Biden also emphasised his personal commitment to achieving this goal, while referencing the ‘steps’ the US was willing to take. In a letter hand-delivered to Aliyev on Monday, Biden highlighted what he called the ‘steady progress’ Azerbaijan and Armenia had made towards finalising a peace agreement which would normalise relations between the two countries

Azerbaijan

MPs demand Azerbaijan cut military ties with US

by Aytan Farhadova

•2 min read

Forty-three Azerbaijani MPs have appealed to Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov to ‘review’ the country’s relationship with the US, including pulling out of several military agreements. The MPs signed the statement on 5 October demanding Bayramov terminate the Joint Declaration on Future Military and Defense Cooperation, signed in 1997, and the Agreement on the Acquisition of Equipment and Mutual Services, signed in 2013. They also demanded an immediate stop to any ongoing negotiations on

USAID Administrator Samantha Power speaking at Democracy Delivers Initiative event. Image via primeminister.am.

Armenia

US allocates $20 million to bolster Armenian security

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

USAID Administrator Samatha Power has announced that the US will allocate $20 million for Armenia to bolster cyber, border, and energy security. The new allocation came just weeks after USAID more than doubled its five-year aid package to Armenia. The announcement came on Wednesday, during a Democracy Delivers Initiative event organised by Power and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in partnership with the Ford Foundation. ‘Now I am pleased to take this moment to announce that working w

US President Joe Biden and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. Illustration by OC Media.

Freedom of Assembly

Biden snubs Georgian PM Kobakhidze by revoking UN reception invite

by OC Media

•2 min read

The White House has disinvited Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Georgia’s delegation from a reception for world leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. On Wednesday, the US Embassy in Georgia told local media that Kobakhidze’s invitation to the reception was revoked due to his government’s anti-democratic actions, misinformation, and negative rhetoric about the US and the West. Voice of America reported the snub on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources including a se