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Construction starts in Mersin on Turkey's first nuclear plant

3 April 2018

President Putin of Russia, who begins an official visit to Ankara today, will, together with Turkish president Recip Tayip Erdogan, join the ground breaking cermeony by video link from Ankara.

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Russia to move Caspian Flotilla closer to Azerbaijan border

2 April 2018

Russia is to make a major naval redeployment, moving its Caspian Flotilla from Astrakhan to Kaspiysk, which is 18 km south east of the capital of Daghestan, Makhachkala.

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Monday Commentary: The South Caucasus is hosting the world

2 April 2018

World leaders will converge on Baku and Yerevan over the next months for the summits of La Francophonie and the Non Aligned Movement. A wonderful development, writes Dennis Sammut, but it would be even better if South Caucasus leaders can also meet together to address the challenges of the region

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ODIHR issues interim report on forthcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan

1 April 2018

Inaccuracy of the voters list, restrictive political environment, and absence of a genuinely competitive contest, were some of the issues raised by interlocoteurs of the OSCE-ODIHR Election Observation Mission, according to its interim report published on 29 March.

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Turkey-Iran-Russia summit on 4 April

31 March 2018

President Erdogan will host president Putin of Russia and president Rouhani of Iran for a meeting focussing on the situation in Syria and other regional and global issues

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Opinion: Iran and the US are slowly heading towards collision

31 March 2018

US attempts to change the provisions of the nuclear deal with Iran will intensify over the next months, but things are only likely to come to a head in 2019 says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed

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Opinion: The spectre of authoritarianism in Eurasia

30 March 2018

By accepting the post of prime minister Serzh Sargsyan joins the club of authoritarian leaders in the Eurasian Economic Union and the CSTO, argues Alexander Petrosyan in this op-ed.

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Georgia expels Russian diplomat over the Salisbury affair

30 March 2018

Georgia has become the first South Caucasus country to join the diplomatic rebuff of Russia spearheaded by the US, the UK and the EU in retaliation for the chemical poison attack in the British town of Salisbury earlier this month.

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Incident leaves Halo Trust demining staff dead and wounded in Karabakh

29 March 2018

Land mines are a huge problem in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone affecting communities on both sides of the line of contact.

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Construction starts in Mersin on Turkey's first nuclear plant

Russia to move Caspian Flotilla closer to Azerbaijan border

Monday Commentary: The South Caucasus is hosting the world

ODIHR issues interim report on forthcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan

Turkey-Iran-Russia summit on 4 April

Opinion: Iran and the US are slowly heading towards collision

Opinion: The spectre of authoritarianism in Eurasia

Georgia expels Russian diplomat over the Salisbury affair

Incident leaves Halo Trust demining staff dead and wounded in Karabakh