What’s happening in Caucasus

Armenian draft evaders have until end of year to avoid criminal prosecution

December 12, 2019

The government intends to give a last chance to draft dodgers who left the country and avoided service to pay and return to their homeland – by the end of the year

Armenian Constitutional Court judges offered pension equal to salary for early retirement in bid to ‘reclaim court’

December 10, 2019

The head of the Constitutional Court is the government’s main target in its newest attempt at dealing with the body’s connections to the former ruling Republican Party of Armenia

‘Washingtonian palms’ come to Abkhazia after former destruction by palm weevil

December 07, 2019

60 palms were brought from Italy and will be planted on the promenade in Sukhum, in place of the dozens of palms that died in 2019 from the invasion of the stink bug

Update: Armenian, Azerbaijani FMs exchange verbal blows after negotiations in Bratislava

December 06, 2019

From the mutual accusations, the details of the negotiations became clear - each side remains firm in its demands for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict

Op-ed: What’s happening in Azerbaijan – a revolution from above or image correction?

Opposition in Azerbaijan

December 05, 2019

The political palette of the past year in questions and answers

Armenian PM’s wife invites Azerbaijani First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva to Karabakh – but with conditions

December 04, 2019

In doing so, Anna Hakobyan answered the words of Mehriban Aliyeva that she dreams of listening to mugam (folk music) in Karabakh

Son of Armenian nationalist party head dumps paint on Griboyedov monument in response to act of vandalism in Russia

December 03, 2019

In mid-November, an Armavir City Duma (Russian Federation) member doused a memorial board portraying Armenian national hero Garegin Nzhdeh with paint and demanded it be taken down

Armenian restaurant faces public ire, boycott after owner shoots dog in public

December 02, 2019

Facebook users are demanding the restaurant owner be punished to the full extent of a new law forbidding cruelty to animals

Large opposition bloc to boycott snap parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan

December 02, 2019

The opposition is demanding electoral reform ‘in exchange’ for its participation

Armenia to introduce controversial new ‘health’ tax

November 29, 2019

The Ministry of Health proposes that employed citizens give away 6% of their salaries, which will cover health-related expenses for the unemployed as well

How to treat a bee sting with vodka – photo report from Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

November 29, 2019

Bee keeping is no longer a ‘men’s only’ profession in Azerbaijan

Armenian telethon charity drive raises record low of $10 mln in wake of scandal

November 29, 2019

This is the 22nd annual telethon of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund

Armenia debates whether human rights are protected - on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Ombudsman Institute

November 26, 2019

Ombudsmen of other countries who arrived at the international forum are lavishing compliments, but some local residents consider their rights unprotected

Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists carry out exchange in complete secrecy

Azerbaijan-Armenia

November 25, 2019

In Armenia, the project is considered to be trilateral, since Karabakh journalists participated in the trips. Azerbaijan calls the trips ‘bilateral.’ Details from all the sides

How we got ‘criminal Abkhazia’ instead of the dream of a wonderful, small country

Abkhazia

November 24, 2019

“Abkhazia is in deep trouble”

Criminal scheme uncovered in Armenia facilitating illegal adoption of children by foreigners

November 22, 2019

Maternity hospital staff forced mothers to abandon their children, who were then passed on for adoption

Russian owner of Armenian railway replaces local railway workers with Russian citizens

November 21, 2019

Out-of-work conductors consider this a threat to national security and have appealed to the National Security Service of Armenia

How and why the Armenian national football team lost 1:9 to Italy in record defeat

November 20, 2019

The newly-appointed coach is ready to resign, but is not afraid to take responsibility and make improvements

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