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Daily Brief

Thursday, 29 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * On 26 May, Azerbaijani citizens Hasan Azizov and Namaz Tahmazli were detained while attempting to avoid criminal liability in Georgia by ‘illegally crossing the state border along the Ingur River’ into Abkhazia, the Russian Border Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported. The department’s press service also reported that the FSB detained a group of foreigners at the same place earlier in May, including ‘Turkish citizens Selcuk Guren, who is wanted international

Daily Brief

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

by OC Media

•5 min read

Regional * South Ossetia and North Ossetia have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of investment activities. The document was signed on the sidelines of the Caucasus Investment Forum in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Krai by South Ossetian Economic Minister Sarmat Kotaev and North Ossetian Industry and Investments Minister Oleg Atarov with additional attendance by South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. Armenia * Prime Minister Niko

Daily Brief

Monday, 26 May 2025

by OC Media

•5 min read

Regional * South Ossetia’s trade representative Taimuraz Goginov has told Sputnik that the duty-free trade agreement will ‘give impetus to the still “timid” trade relations between South Ossetia and Abkhazia’. He noted specifically that Abkhazia could supply South Ossetia with citrus while South Ossetia can offer in turn ‘excellent water and cold South Ossetian beer’. * Armenia will host the 8th European Political Community Summit (EPC) in the spring of 2026, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pas

Daily Brief

Friday, 23 May 2025

by OC Media

•3 min read

Regional * Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent statement on so-called ‘western Azerbaijan’. ‘The western regions of [...] Azerbaijan constitute western Azerbaijan’, Badalyan said, adding that such statements by the Azerbaijani side ‘are viewed as territorial claims against’ Armenia. Armenia * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan received Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Marek Prawda. He visited Armenia as part of politic