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No checkpoint is going to be put on the border between Russia and Abkhazia" - Russian State Duma deputy

Georgia

May 26, 2022

Psou checkpoint may be abolished, Russian State Duma deputy said, explaining that it would ensure a more comfortable crossing of the Russian-Abkhaz border

US Embassy in Georgia: "Our assistance is impartial"

Georgia

May 26, 2022

"Our assistance is impartial and apolitical" - US Embassy in Georgia's response to Georgian authorities amid the exclusion of Judge Lasha Chkhikvadze from the professional development program in US

Launched in secret: Armenia's first satellite joins Earth orbit

Armenia

May 26, 2022

Armenia's first satellite in space: PM Pashinyan, that the launch, which took place on May 25 in Cape Canaveral (USA), had been kept in secret 'due to certain considerations'

Political prisoner accused of illegal financing of opposition Popular Front Party released in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

May 25, 2022

Political prisoner Agil Maharramov after serving a four-year term. Maharramov was accused of illegal financing of the opposition Popular Front party in Azerbaijan

Opinion: “It's time to review Armenia’s foreign policy”

Politics in Armenia

May 25, 2022

Political scientist Armen Grigoryan calls for urgent revision of Armenia's foreign policy to replace the ongoing "pseudo-diversification" of the country's foreign affairs

How Facebook facilitates information wars waged by Putin and other authoritarian regimes

War in Ukraine

May 25, 2022

Despite saying that it is fighting disinformation around the war in Ukraine and blocking Russian propaganda, in practice, Facebook is blocking independent media

Ex-US Ambassador, former Assistant US State Sec: "Putin is failing in Ukraine, but winning in Georgia"

Georgia-Russia

May 25, 2022

"The Georgian government is taking pages from Putin’s playbook", former US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly and former US Assistant Secretary of State David Kramer believe

"Karabakh is up for sale" - Armenian opposition on Pashinyan-Aliyev Brussels talks

Azerbaijan-Armenia

May 25, 2022

"Armenian-Azerbaijani talks serve Azerbaijani interests; PM Pashinyan put Karabakh up for sale"- Armenian opposition's reaction to Pashinyan-Aliyev talks in Brussels

'Political correctness': a chain of Baku stores announces discount on black goods on Africa day

Azerbaijan

May 24, 2022

Azerbaijan celebrates Africa Day with discounts on black products. A chain of household appliances outraged social media users with an advert featuring an Azerbaijani celebrity of Cuban origin and a discount on black products

Opinion: Abkhaz authorities are dangerously inert

Abkhazia

May 24, 2022

Can the Abkhaz authorities take advantage of the global crisis and will Georgian-Abkhaz relations change? The editor of JAMnews in Abkhazia, Inal Khashig, discusses the current geopolitical situation

Georgian ruling party chairman on joining EU: Georgia is ahead of Ukraine and Moldova

Georgia

May 24, 2022

"We call on the radical opposition to stop agitation against Georgia - Georgia is ahead of Ukraine and Moldova in all spheres", Georgian Dream chairman commented on Georgia awaiting its EU candidate status

3,386 Russian entrepreneurs registered in Georgia since Russian invasion of Ukraine

Georgia

May 23, 2022

3,386 Russian entrepreneurs in Georgia have been registered since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. It is not known in which industries these individual entrepreneurs operate

Abkhazia's Union of Journalists' head proposes to legalize Georgian-Abkhaz trade

Georgian-Abkhaz conflict

May 23, 2022

Abkhazia's Journalists' Union proposes legalizing trade with Georgia. Head of the union, Ruslan Khashig, advocates the intensification of the Georgian-Abkhaz negotiation process and the opening of transport communications

“Will he ask to demolish Lenin monument next?” – N. Ossetian blogger tried “for hatred of communists”

North Caucasus

May 23, 2022

Ossetian blogger on trial for 'hatred of communists'. Beslan terrorist attack survivor Batraz Misikov supported a call to rename Lenin street In Vladikavkaz after Soviet Union hero Kaurbek Toguzov

Third Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting in Brussels 'productive', parties say

Azerbaijan-Armenia

May 23, 2022

The third Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting in Brussels took place - here's what we know so far and how Armenian and Azerbaijani experts assess it

US Embassy in Georgia excludes Nika Gvaramia's judge from training program in Florida

Georgia

May 21, 2022

Nika Gvaramia's judge excluded from US training program. Judge Lasha Chkhikvadze was supposed to atend a seminar in Florida, full paid for by the US Embassy in Georgia

Opposition activists arrested in Azerbaijan after being deported from Germany

Azerbaijan

May 21, 2022

Several arrests of Azerbaijani activists deported from Germany spark concern among political migrants who claim that the German government has made a deal with Baku on extraditing oppositionists

Advisor to US Secretary of State: Nika Gvaramia's arrest could create problems for Georgia

Georgia

May 21, 2022

Nika Gvaramia's arrest will make it difficult for Georgia to achieve its Euro-Atlantic goals, advisor to the US Secretary of State, Derek Shoal, said

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