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Daily Brief

Monday, 3 February 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Armenia * Employees of the Zangezur mine began a strike in demand of better working conditions and pay on Friday. The mine, and its trade union, have issued a joint statement saying that the strike was held ‘in violation of the labour legislation’, and that the striking employees were demanding ‘an unrealistic salary increase ultimatum, which has sabotaged the operation of the company’. The Zangezur mine is the biggest tax-paying company in Armenia. * The authorities have launched a criminal

Daily Brief

Friday, 31 January 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili has said that Georgia ‘really wants to be a facilitator’ in the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan. * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze expressed their readiness to activate the process of border delimitations and ‘agreed that we will exert every effort in that direction’. * Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), has

Daily Brief

Thursday, 30 January 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili visited Armenia on Thursday. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze will also reportedly be visiting. * The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a new resolution ‘reiterating its call to Azerbaijan to release’ Armenian prisoners. * Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan have made ‘very great and good progress’ in terms of border delimitation and demarcation. * Turan repo

Daily Brief

Wednesday, 29 January 2025

by OC Media

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Armenia * Armenia’s Chief of General Staff, Edward Asryan, said yesterday that the situation on the line of contact was relatively stable. He added that Armenia was ‘always concerned over the Azerbaijani Defence Minister’s belligerent statements, but they are a little part in the operative assessment’. Azerbaijan * Yesterday, Mikhail Yevdokimov, Russia’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan, was ‘invited’ to the Foreign Ministry. According to the ministry, Yevdokimov attended a meeting during which th