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Daily Brief

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

by OC Media

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Armenia * On Wednesday, Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will visit Armenia, as part of his visit he will have several high-profile meetings, including with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. * On Tuesday, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with his Singaporean counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan, in Nice, France. According to the Armenian readout, they discussed ‘several concrete directions for developing the cooperation and enriching the bilateral agenda’. The

Daily Brief

Monday, 9 June 2025

by OC Media

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Regional * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in an X post congratulated Azerbaijan and its people on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, ‘wishing peace and prosperity to our countries and peoples’. Armenia * A telephone conversation was held between Pashinyan and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, with Pashinyan also congratulating him and Iran on the occasion of Eid. They also discussed bilateral and regional security issues. * On Friday evening Armenian National Security Service (NSS) announced

Daily Brief

Friday, 6 June 2025

by OC Media

•4 min read

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

Daily Brief

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),