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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
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
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
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
