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Several thousand people are marching through central Tbilisi in solidarity with Ukraine, following Russia’s large-scale invasion this morning.
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Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has confirmed that an anti-mobilisation protest was held in the Chechen capital. This is the first protest against the ruling regime in his 15 years in power.
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⭕ BREAKING: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that Armenia will leave the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).
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Hundreds of protesters have gathered at Tbilisi airport to meet the first flight to arrive from Russia since the ban on air travel between the two countries was lifted last week.
📰Background:
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The Armenian Environmental Front has released a joint statement signed by 50 institutions expressing concern over environmental damage in Nagorno-Karabakh. They accused Azerbaijan of using white phosphorus on forested areas.
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In an unprecedented move, 34 of the most popular Georgian YouTubers have recorded a joint video address against the draft foreign agent law and the police violence against protesters, sharing it on their channels.
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Thousands have gathered at Tbilisi’s First Republic Square to protest against Georgia’s foreign agent draft law.
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Azerbaijani peace activists Narmin Shahmarzade and Giyas Ibrahimov have reported that they have been called to the Prosecutor’s Office for questioning. The two were among the signatories of a statement calling for peace.
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Democracy 1918, an Azerbaijani pro-democracy movement, claims that its chair, Ahmet Mammadli, had been abducted by plain-clothed police officers after he made a series of tweets critical of Azerbaijan’s attack on Armenia and of President Ilham Aliyev.
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Protesters in Tbilisi dance a traditional 'khorumi', as they block Heroes Square.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has admitted that his country started the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, despite previously insisting the opposite.
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Tens of thousands of people have gathered as the demonstration against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law is underway on Tbilisi’s Europe Square.
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BREAKING: Azerbaijani activist Giyas Ibrahimov has been detained by the security services, allegedly for making anti-war statements online.
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Stepanakert mayor to local media: 40% of the city has been destroyed since the fighting began. He also said that from a population of 55,000, roughly 30% still remain in the city.
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Azerbaijani politics has taken a dark turn towards irredentism with its cult of brute force and victory. There can be no lasting peace with Armenians until we dismantle the vengeful founding myths of our national identity and reject violent nationalism.
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Georgian hackers have claimed responsibility for taking down the Chechen Government’s website, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Riot police are continuing to attempt to disperse protesters against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law using water cannons, stun grenades, and tear gas. Demonstrators continue to return and face off with them.
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US State Department spokesperson Ned Price appeared to place the blame for the latest fighting on Azerbaijan in a press briefing.
‘The fact is, we have seen significant evidence of Azerbaijani shelling inside Armenia, significant damage to Armenian infrastructure’, he said.
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Georgian star footballer and Napoli player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has shared a pro-European post and story, writing that ‘Georgia’s path and future goes only to Europe’.
‘Forward to Europe! Peace to Georgia!’, he wrote.
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Tens of thousands of people gathered today in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh demanding the opening of the Lachin corridor closed on 12 December by a group of Azerbaijani ‘eco-activists’.
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Aleksandre Lashkarava, a camera operator at TV Pirveli injured during 5 July's violence in Tbilisi, has been found dead at his home. Lashkarava sustained broken facial bones and a concussion when homophobic protesters beat him in the street. Police have launched an investigation.
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BREAKING: EU grants Georgia candidate status
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Azerbaijani soldier on Azerbaijani TV appears to acknowledge the presence of Pakistanis during Nagorno-Karabakh conflict:
'I also want to stress that brothers from Pakistan came to us. Some of them spoke Turkish, they communicated with us, they said… (he is interrupted)'
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A student march is moving towards Georgia’s parliament, to join tonight’s protest against the foreign agent law.
📽️Shota Kincha/OC Media
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BREAKING: Georgian Dream and People’s Power have announced that they are ‘unconditionally’ rescinding the draft foreign influence law, following two nights of protests in Tbilisi.
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Ilham Aliyev told Turkish television today that Azerbaijan 'successfully continues our liberation operation���. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s MOD said this morning that ‘the troops of the Azerbaijan Army’ are ‘observing the humanitarian ceasefire’.
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Nana Malashkhia, images of whom holding an EU Flag while being watered cannoned during last year’s protests became viral, has addressed the crowd outside parliament.
‘Don’t test our patience!’, she said. ‘Listen to people’s voices and retract this law!’
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Tens of thousands are now gathered in front of the parliament in Tbilisi, with the growing crowd listening to speeches, holding European and Georgian flags, and chanting ‘No to the Russian law’ as lawmakers debate the foreign agent law.
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Traffic on the right bank of river Mtkvari has been blocked by thousands of Georgians protesting the ruling party’s foreign agent draft law.
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Crowds gathered in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh today to mark Revival Day; a celebration of the 1988 decision by the region's authorities to unify with Soviet Armenia. The only road connecting the region to Armenia has been blocked for over two months.
Video:
@marutvanian
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Thousands of protesters have blocked Rustaveli Avenue and are marching to the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi, in protest against the government’s revival of the foreign agent law.
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Former prime minister Giorgi Gakharia has thanked ‘GenZ’ and ‘Millennials’ for opposing the law. Young people were some of the last protesters remaining in the early hours of the morning, and held a ‘silent disco’ as a noise cannon sounded around them.
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Police have used a water cannon to disperse protesters against Georgia's foreign agent around the parliament building.
Tens of riot police were seen marching onto Rustaveli Avenue from Freedom Square with water and sound cannons.
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Nagorno-Karabakh’s foreign ministry has appealed to the Red Cross over the publication by Azerbaijan of videos of prisoners of war. The Geneva Conventions obliges states to protect prisoners from ‘public curiosity’.
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BREAKING: Georgia’s ambassador to France and Monaco, Gotcha Javakhishvili, has resigned in protest against Georgia’s draft foreign agent law.
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20-year-old Chechen Sayd-Mukhammad Dzhumayev has become a symbol of the protests in Russia after this video of him fighting with police was widely shared with the hashtag #ДжумаевНашГерой (Dzhumayev is our hero).
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Dozens of Georgian cultural representatives have begun a march to the parliament, to join the main protest. ‘The river of people flowing from the heart of the country won't be stopped’, reads the banner.
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Tens of thousands of people gathered in Stepanakert on Sunday to demand that the road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world be reopened. The Lachin Corridor has been blocked by Azerbaijani ‘eco-activists’ since 12 December.
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People handed out pizza to protesters marching back to Liberty Square from Georgian Dream’s offices in Old Tbilisi.
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A photo by TASS photographer Sergei Bobylev shows a Russian field camp set up near Tegh, close to the Lachin pass which connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. Azerbaijani forces have made advances towards the pass in recent days.
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BREAKING: The Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia has announced a ceasefire.
‘With the involvement of the international community, an agreement on a ceasefire was reached. We hope Azerbaijan will keep that ceasefire’, he said.
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Azerbaijan has refused to sign an interim peace treaty with Armenia based on articles both parties had already agreed on, despite having proposed to do so earlier this year.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to sign a peace deal and conduct border delimitations by the end of the year, announced the Armenian Security Council.
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Tens of thousands of protesters remain in front of parliament
Tens of thousands of protesters against the foreign agent draft law are still in front of the Georgian Parliament. They are joined by protesters from other Georgian regions.
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has appeared to lay claim to modern-day Armenia while also attacking critics in the West for supporting Armenia.
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After the death of three Nagorno-Karabakh police officers in combat with Azerbaijani troops, Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians today protested in front of a Russian peacekeeper base chanting 'We need real peacekeepers'.
Video:
@marutvanian
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Thousands of people have gathered in Stepanakert (Khankendi) to express concern over the future of Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of a meeting tomorrow between Pashinyan, Aliyev, and Putin tomorrow in Sochi.
Photo: Marut Vanyan/OC Media.
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The eco-activists blocking the Lachin Corridor are nothing of the sort. Instead, more and more evidence has emerged making clear they are sent and supported by Azerbaijan’s government, argues Bashir Kitachayev.
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BREAKING: Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a ceasefire from 12:00 on Saturday following over ten hours of talks in Moscow.
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BREAKING: The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a tripartite meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York today, according to the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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US Assistant Secretary of State Jim O’Brien has said the US will apply travel restrictions and financial sanctions against individuals involved if Georgia's foreign agent law ‘goes forward’.
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Azerbaijani researcher Bahruz Samadov has reportedly been detained in Baku on drug possession charges. Samadov has been an outspoken critic of the government.
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⚡Armenia has applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) requesting provisional measures against Azerbaijan for ‘targeting of civilian settlements in Armenia, the protection of the fundamental rights of the civilian population and prisoners of war’.
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Azerbaijani writer and OC Media contributor Samad Shikhi has reportedly been detained at Baku airport as he was attempting to leave the country.
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A grassroots youth group from northeast Georgia’s Pankisi Valley, a region where most belong to a Chechen ethnic sub-group, held a protest in Tbilisi today, calling out alleged ‘discrimination’ against North Caucasians at the Lars Georgia-Russia border crossing.
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Tbilisi State University (TSU) students have announced a strike from Monday, and called on lecturers and students of other universities to do the same.
‘Georgia will not become Russia’, they stated.
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Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered for a second day in front of Georgia's Parliament, a day after a foreign agent bill passed its first parliamentary reading.
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An Azerbaijani activist has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention, allegedly for making a post on social media criticising President Ilham Aliyev.
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Riot police have charged protesters without warning, making arrests. OC Media witnessed officers beating and kicking several people as they lay on the ground.
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University and high school students in Batumi are marching through the west Georgian city in protest against the foreign agent law, and being greeted with waves and cheers from onlookers and students at other institutions.
🎥Batumelebi
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The thousands of protesters marching to Georgian Dream’s headquarters in Old Tbilisi from Liberty Square have paralysed traffic in a section of the river embankment.
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Aleko Elisahsvili has been greeted with cheers and hugs by protesters outside parliament, after punching Mamuka Mdinardze in the face.
🎥 Publika
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The leader of Russia’s far-right Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has suggested annexing Nagorno-Karabakh into Russia as a means of solving the conflict.
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Saakashvili: Nagorno-Karabakh is Azerbaijan:
‘My position is absolutely clear and it is based on the principle of state unity, and so Nagorno Karabakh is a part of the Republic of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory and nothing can change this.’
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Several marches have reconvened outside the parliament on the central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. Many of the protesters are students went on strike today.
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Thousands of protesters have blocked Heroes Square, one of Tbilisi’s largest intersections, after marching down to the square from the Tbilisi State Concert Hall.
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OC Media has refused to register with the Georgian Government as an organisation ‘carrying out the interests of a foreign power’ after the deadline to do so passed on Monday.
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Azerbaijani peace activist
@SamadzadeSevinj
unpacks some of the contradictions between the Azerbaijani government’s ideology and its stated aim of integrating the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Listen to the full interview on the Caucasus Digest:
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MP and leader of the opposition Citizens Party, Aleko Elisashvili, has punched Georgian Dream parliamentary leader Mamuka Mdinardze in the face in parliament.
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The Georgian far-right group, Alt Info, has taken down and destroyed the flag of Europe hanging outside the Georgian Parliament. Several hundred members of the group are outside the building; the police presence remains relatively light.
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Footage circulating online appears to show the mutilation of a female Armenian soldier by Azerbaijani troops during fighting this week.
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As Azerbaijan becomes increasingly aggressive towards Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, civil society must step up and propose a progressive alternative to Baku’s rule — one that challenges the nationalist militarism at its core, argues
@bahruz_samad
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The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have reported that a 40-year-old man has starved to death in the eighth month of the region’s blockade by Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan has removed displays depicting Armenian soldiers and the helmets of soldiers seized during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War from the Baku Trophy Park, following a complaint by Armenia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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The Russian Ministry of Defence has accused Azerbaijani forces of violating the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh as tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue to rise.
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Thousands have gathered in front of the Georgian Parliament calling for the foreign agent law to be withdrawn.
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Aliyev has said that at today’s meeting in Geneva, Azerbaijan will raise the issue of transferring the Lachin, Kalbajar and Aghdam regions as well as Shusha, Stepanakert, and ‘other territories’ to Azerbaijani control.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has delivered a fiery speech in which he accused Aliyev of planning the genocide of the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Drone footage showing the size of the crowd at today’s protest in front of the parliament
🎥 Formula TV
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Thousands of people are marching in Tbilisi to protest Georgia’s foreign agent law.
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The foreign ministers of Estonia, Lithuania, and Iceland joined the student march along Rustaveli Avenue from Heroes Square in Tbilisi.
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Two Azerbaijani journalists and one local official died after an anti-tank mine exploded in Azerbaijan’s Kalbajar district, near the Azerbaijan-Armenia border.
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Thousands have gathered in the centre of Yerevan to protest a border demarcation agreement with Azerbaijan. The protest’s leaders have issued an ultimatum, demanding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign within the hour.
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Protesters are gathering in front of Georgia’s parliament for an overnight demonstration against the foreign agent draft law, before parliamentary discussions resume on Monday. Riot police buses are stationed on Freedom Square.
📷Tamar Shvelidze/OC Media
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Nagorno-Karabakh’s Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan, has reported that the village of Yeghtsahogh (Sarybaba) in the Shusha (Shushi) region has been completely surrounded by Azerbaijani forces, with its population of 150 trapped inside.
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Editor in chief
@RobinFabbro
and co-founder
@mari_nikuradze
yesterday accepted the Free Media Award from
@ZEITstiftung
and
@FrittOrd
for OC Media’s ‘critical and independent reporting for the entire Caucasus Region’.
📸 Ulrich Perrey/ZEIT Foundation
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Thousands have taken part in a Women's Day march to the Georgian Parliament a day after the anti-foreign agent protests. Other demonstrators are expected to renew their protests against the draft law at 19:00.
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A rally in support of Ukraine is being held in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Baku. The slogans ‘Reject Putin’ and ‘Long live Ukraine’ are chanted.
📸 Fatima Movlamli
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BREAKING: The European Commission has recommended that the EU grant Georgia candidate status, paving the way for the bloc to begin the country’s ascension process at the EU Council meeting later in December.
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Despite calls from some organisers to go home, some protestors have insisted they will remain outside parliament overnight. Several thousand still remain facing off with police around the side of the building.
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Riot police in Tbilisi have ordered protesters against the foreign agent bills to leave the vicinity of parliament, threatening to deploy water cannons against the demonstration if they refuse.
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Mehriban Aliyeva, wife of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the country's first Vice-President, has resigned from the role of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will travel to Armenia this weekend, mere days after the recent two-day Armenian-Azerbaijani war, Politico has reported.
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has continued to make the rounds in the international press, this time telling CNN that Russia is ‘starting its hybrid [warfare] strategy’ to derail Georgia from its path to EU integration.
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Several Western countries have reacted with apparent horror at footage appearing to show the summary execution of Armenian prisoners of war.
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An anti-war activist has claimed that the Azerbaijani security services threatened to kill him and his family over his online activities. Latif Mammadov, 24, told OC Media that officers physically abused and threatened him during his 2-hour interrogation.
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Tens of thousands of people have gathered outside the Georgian parliament in support of the country's EU membership aspirations.
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