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Regional * According to an OCCRP report based on leaked materials, an air defence system purchased by Azerbaijan from Belarus ‘was “actively used” to destroy Armenian drones’ during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020. Armenia * In an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US podcaster Patrick Bet-David asked why Israel has not recognised the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians, after Netanyahu falsely claimed that Israel’s Parliament ‘passe
Regional * Today marks 17 years since Russia’s recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. * Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has claimed to have been gifted two commemorative photos signed by US President Donald Trump, praising him for being ‘great’. Both photos show Aliyev, Trump, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during their meeting in Washington in early August, with the first being signed ‘Ilham, you are great’, while the second is signed ‘Ilham, you are a great leader’. It i
Regional * The Constitutional Court of Abkhazia and the Supreme Court of South Ossetia have signed a memorandum of cooperation. The two courts will work to exchange best practices, conduct joint research, and improve the qualifications of court staff. Armenia * In his message on the occasion of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the ‘the key ideological provisions of the declaration were conflict-oriented’. * Territorial
Regional * Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said that from the end of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 until the launch of the last large-scale military offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s ‘main goal’ was to ‘fully restore the sovereignty of our country’. The statement came during a meeting with Kalbajar residents yesterday. * Aliyev also announced that the railway in Azerbaijan’s exclave Nakhchivan would be fully modernised, adding that the construction of a railway in A
