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US threatens to give up mediation efforts unless Russia and Ukraine put forward "concrete proposals”
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US threatens to give up mediation efforts unless Russia and Ukraine put forward "concrete proposals”

30 April 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned on Tuesday that the United States would give up on mediation unless Russia and Ukraine put forward "concrete proposals," as US patience wanes on an early priority for Donald Trump. The US president had vowed to end the war in his first 24 hours back in the White House but, as Trump celebrates 100 days in office, Rubio has suggested the administration could soon turn attention to other issues.
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Putin announces surprise ceasefire to coincide with Victory Day commemorations
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Putin announces surprise ceasefire to coincide with Victory Day commemorations

29 April 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a surprise three-day ceasefire from May 8-10, coinciding with Moscow's World War II Victory Day commemorations, the Kremlin said on Monday. Moscow said it expected Kyiv to issue a similar order, and that it stood ready to respond to any violations of the possible halt in fighting.  Putin made a similar order to stop combat over Easter, a truce that both sides accused the other of violating hundreds of times, but did lead to a temporary reduction in fighting.
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2 killed in anti-terrorist operation in Ingushetia
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2 killed in anti-terrorist operation in Ingushetia

9 June 2018
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the two were killed in the Ingush capital Nazran and that they were planing a series of terrorist attacks, but gave no further details
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Opinion: Pashinyan's timely visit to Georgia
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Opinion: Pashinyan's timely visit to Georgia

29 May 2018
Armenian-Georgian relations are friendly, regardless of some tensions under the surface. During his visit to Georgia this week Nikol Pashinyan should focus on pragmatic issues related to transport corridors, argues Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed.
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Monday Commentary: The 1918 republics in the South Caucasus lit a beacon which has never been extinguished since
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Monday Commentary: The 1918 republics in the South Caucasus lit a beacon which has never been extinguished since

29 May 2018
The festivities marking the centennial of the first republics in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia were well deserved, and not without present-day significance, for regardless of the managed narratives the powerful messages from a hundred years ago still resonate throughout the region, argues Dennis Sammut.
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1918: If there had not been the first republic, there would not have been Soviet Armenia, nor the current third republic
1918: If there had not been the first republic, there would not have been Soviet Armenia, nor the current third republic
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1918: If there had not been the first republic, there would not have been Soviet Armenia, nor the current third republic

27 May 2018
Armenia is marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the first Republic in May 1918. Alexandre Petrossian, a young political analyst based in Yerevan, reflects on the difficulties encountered by the founding fathers, and the achievements of the first republic
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Monday Commentary: Russia's struggle between stagnation and innovation
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Monday Commentary: Russia's struggle between stagnation and innovation

21 May 2018
"I expected that a shrewd operator like Putin would have understood that he needed to ride the wave of change, not try to stop. The fact that he did not may indicate other concerns, not least internal power struggles", writes Dennis Sammut.
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