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MEP Nils Ušakovs in Armenia: Reforms linked to EU accession will strengthen country
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MEP Nils Ušakovs in Armenia: Reforms linked to EU accession will strengthen country

25 February 2025
Speaking at a press conference after the 4th Meeting of EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee in Yerevan, MEP Nils Ušakovs said that the process of Armenia’s accession to the European Union will require significant reforms over a long time. Ušakovs, co-chair of the committee, said that the reforms will strengthen the country and enable it to make more confident decisions regarding its future.
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US votes with Russia in United Nations resolutions on Ukraine
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US votes with Russia in United Nations resolutions on Ukraine

25 February 2025
The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war. First the US opposed a European-drafted resolution condemning Moscow's actions and supporting Ukraine's territorial integrity, voting the same way as Russia and countries including North Korea and Belarus at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Then the US drafted and voted for a resolution at the UN Security Council which called for an end to the conflict but contained no criticism of Russia. The Security Council passed the resolution but two key US allies, the UK and France, abstained after their attempts to amend the wording were vetoed.
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From Activist to Prime Minister, From Historical to Real Armenia: Pashinyan’s Bold New Gamble
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From Activist to Prime Minister, From Historical to Real Armenia: Pashinyan’s Bold New Gamble

24 February 2025
When Nikol Pashinyan embarked on a march from Gyumri to Yerevan at the end of March 2018 to prevent then President Serzh Sargsyan from clinging onto power, few believed he would succeed. Pashinyan was joined by a small group of allies as they made their way to the Armenian capital. Against all odds, Pashinyan’s gambit worked and is the country's premier today. For those that have followed his career to date, that shouldn't have come as a surprise.
Onnik James Krikorian
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BBC and Turan the latest casualties in Azerbaijan's media crackdown.
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BBC and Turan the latest casualties in Azerbaijan's media crackdown.

24 February 2025
The Azerbaijani government has ordered the suspension of BBC News Azerbaijani operation in Baku whle the influential news agency Turan has been forced to drastically scale down its operations in the country. The BBC said in a statement that it had made the "reluctant decision" to close its office in the country after receiving a verbal instruction from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mehman Aliyev, a prominent journalist and Director of Turan, announced they would be shutting down their offices due to financial problems. Turan was the last independent media outlet that still had offices inside Azerbaijan. Numerous independent journalists have been detained in Azerbaijan while Reporters Without Borders gave the country a highly negative classification on press freedom.  
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Italian Senate adopts resolution supporting Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process
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Italian Senate adopts resolution supporting Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process

21 February 2025
The Italian Senate has adopted a resolution supporting the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process, calling on the government of Italy to strengthen its commitment for both countries to abandon the use of force in the future and maintain peaceful, constructive and open dialogue. The resolution titled ‘On Initiatives to Support the Peace Process Between Armenia and Azerbaijan’ was adopted unanimously on the 19th of February.
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Opinion: The World Must Know More about the Khojaly Genocide
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Opinion: The World Must Know More about the Khojaly Genocide

20 February 2025
The occupation and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts in the early 1990s by the armed forces of Armenia involved immeasurable atrocities and extreme violence. Realizing that more than 700,000 people in the region would not easily flee their homes, Armenian leaders resorted to force. The ethnic cleansing carried out by the Armenian armed forces resulted in numerous humanitarian tragedies over the years, but the most devastating was the massacre of civilians in Khojaly, a town in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, in the bitterly cold morning of February 26, 1992.
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Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli ends hunger strike
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Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli ends hunger strike

20 February 2025
Mzia Amoglobeli, founder of the independent Georgian outlets Netgazeti and Batumelebi, has resumed eating on the 38th day of her hunger strike. She informed her colleagues of her decision in a letter, which was read aloud by Batumelebi‘s editor-in-chief, Eteri Turadze, in the courtyard of the Vivamedi clinic. Mzia Amaglobeli is the first female journalist in Georgia to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience. She was jailed on charges of “assaulting a police officer” and faces a prison sentence of four to seven years. In letters sent from prison, she stressed that her hunger strike was a stand against injustice, not an attempt to secure better conditions for herself.
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Russia and US agree without Ukraine to press ahead on path to peace
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Russia and US agree without Ukraine to press ahead on path to peace

18 February 2025
The United States and Russia agreed in Riyadh on Tuesday to press ahead with efforts to end the war in Ukraine, a US official said, as Kyiv and its European allies watched anxiously from the sidelines and Moscow raised a major new demand. US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the two sides agreed to appoint "respective high-level teams to begin working on a path to ending the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible in a way that is enduring, sustainable, and acceptable to all sides".
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Opinion: Research and Public-Private Partnerships Necessary For Any Future Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Markets
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Opinion: Research and Public-Private Partnerships Necessary For Any Future Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Markets

17 February 2025
Armenian passport control at the Bagratashen border checkpoint was confused and chaotic, quite unlike the experience on the other side at Sadakhlo in Georgia. Instead of the few minutes it should have taken, it took over twenty. It never had in the past. Perhaps preparations for a visit by the European Union delegation taking place just a few days later to develop a much anticipated Visa Liberalisation Action Plan (VLAP) had preoccupied them.
Onnik James Krikorian