1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (33+ words) JAMnews The video was filmed during a journey from Georgia to Armenia, and the story follows this route. Receive updates twice a week on the latest news from the South Caucasus...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (944+ words) The Corruption Prevention Commission refused to open administrative proceedings against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Commission members said the complaint contained no “obvious signs of violations of the code of conduct”. Semyon Babayan, head of the human rights NGO Public…...

4+ day, 34+ min ago   (490+ words) Civil rights activist and blogger Tornike Razmadze says Georgia’s Interior Ministry has summoned him to court to impose a fine or administrative detention because he insulted Kremlin propagandists Margarita Simonyan and Vladimir Solovyov in response to their insults against Georgian…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (567+ words) The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has called on pilgrims not to visit the New Athos Monastery in Abkhazia. The ROC considers the monastery’s abbot, Father Dorotheus, a schismatic. However, this did not stop Sergei Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (974+ words) Ukrainian authorities are seeking to take control of IDS Ukraine, one of the country’s largest mineral water producers. Russian businessmen under sanctions own almost half of the company, while 34.83% belongs to the family of the late Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili....

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1293+ words) Persecution of Talysh activists in Azerbaijan Talysh activists and researchers in Azerbaijan have over the years received lengthy prison sentences on charges of high treason, separatism and inciting ethnic hatred. Two of them, Novruzali Mammadov and Fakhraddin Abbasov, died while…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1110+ words) Council of Europe on FARA According to the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA), Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O’Flaherty has intervened as a third party in a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerning…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (968+ words) Against the backdrop of a two-day business forum held in Yerevan with the participation of business representatives from Armenia and Turkey, debate over normalising Armenian-Turkish relations and reopening the border between the two countries has intensified in Armenian society. Following…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1221+ words) The US made Armenia’s access to advanced Nvidia processors one of the economic incentives offered during the peace talks. The project is already under way in Yerevan. Azerbaijan, meanwhile, received a strategic partnership document from Washington, the suspension of Section…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (975+ words) On 6 September, President Ilham Aliyev and First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva visited the Azerbaijani Navy. The visit was intended to showcase two unmanned naval platforms: the SALVO armed uncrewed surface vessel and the KAYRA maritime kamikaze drone. According to Azerbaijan’s presidential…...