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Regional * Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan expressed hope that established peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan ‘will also put an end to fabricated claims and eliminate hate speech’. The statement came in reponse to an Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry statement regarding what they call ‘the Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis’, referring to the massacres of Azerbaijanis by Armenians during a period of internecine violence in 1918. Armenia * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will
Armenia * Five people have been arrested in Armenia in connection with alleged election-related bribery linked to Russian–Armenian tycoon Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia party. According to the Anti-Corruption Committee, the bribes were ‘formulated as a salary, thereby trying to conceal the fact of providing electoral bribes’. The party denied the accusations, describing the secretly recorded phone calls as fiction. * Yesterday, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan had a phone conversation wit
Regional * In Chechnya and Daghestan, a state of emergency has been introduced due to heavy rainfall, downpours in the mountains, and precipitation in the form of rain and wet snow. Local public channels report rockfalls on a federal highway, destruction of homes, damage to bridges, power outages, and restrictions on traffic. Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the flooding of residential buildings. Neighbouring republics have also been affected. A ‘high alert regime’ due to precipi
Regional * Aishat Baimuradova, a Chechen woman who was murdered in Yerevan in November, will be laid to rest in Armenia today. Investigative authorities have taken charge of the funeral arrangements, and officials have promised that anyone wishing to attend will be permitted to do so. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed yesterday Nagorno-Karabakh’s army did not truly put up a fight against Azerbaijan during the final 2023 offensive, saying that reports to the contrary were ‘not consisten
