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Opinion: Third meeting of 3+3 and reconfiguration of the South Caucasus geopolitics
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Opinion: Third meeting of 3+3 and reconfiguration of the South Caucasus geopolitics

23 October 2024
On 18 October, the 3+3 regional cooperation platform which hypothetically includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia “plus” three surrounding powers (Türkiye, Iran, and Russia) convened the third meeting at the ministerial level, though again without the participation of Georgia. Hosted by Türkiye in Istanbul, the meeting took place amidst a sensitive security situation in the wider region due to the ramifications of the Russia-Ukraine war, the potential Iran-Israel war, the upcoming fateful parliamentary elections in Georgia, and certainly, the persisting challenges in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process.

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Opinion: Is this the end for the post-cold war world order?
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Opinion: Is this the end for the post-cold war world order?

15 June 2018
The G7 and Shanghai Co-operation Organisation summits last week highlighted the decline of western dominated post-cold war order, and a growing role for regional powers in their respective zones of influence, says Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed
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2018 FIFA World Cup opens in Moscow
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2018 FIFA World Cup opens in Moscow

15 June 2018
President Putin, speaking at the opening ceremony said the "unity, which no language, ideology or faith distinctions can overpower, is the source of the great strength of football and sport in general and of the strength of its humanistic ideals."
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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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