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Armenia * Three Gyumri municipality employees have been arrested for threatening employees to organise protests in support of detained Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan under threat. The Investigative Committee has reported that the officials allegedly instructed several staff members — under threat of dismissal — to order kindergarten directors to send children home and gather at the municipality to prevent the mayor’s arrest. Following these orders, multiple kindergarten directors reportedly sto
Regional * Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Nikolai Udovichenko as a special representative for border demarcation with neighbouring CIS countries. Udovichenko will also be responsible for the delimitation and demarcation of Russia’s border with Abkhazia, Georgia, and South Ossetia. Armenia * Yerevan’s Leningradyan Street is set to be renamed after philanthropist Kirk Kerkorian. The proposal will be discussed at the city council’s October 23 session. If adopted, the decision
Regional * The 5th Silk Road 2025 Forum has begun in Tbilisi, with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov among those participating. The two spoke at the opening panel alongside Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. * Pashinyan said Armenia is ‘ready from today’ to enable transit of cargo trucks between Turkey and Azerbaijan through its territory. Speaking at the forum in Tbilisi, he welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent decision
Armenia * Armenian lorry drivers have blocked the Bagratashen customs checkpoint after failing to receive a response from the government regarding new Russian migration rules. The drivers are demanding that Yerevan negotiate changes to Moscow’s law limiting foreigners’ stay in Russia to 90 days per year, down from 180, arguing that the restriction should not apply to freight and passenger transport drivers who frequently travel on long-haul routes. * Sixteen people detained during protests in
