2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (433+ words) A week before the upcoming elections, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov called on the heads of the republic’s security agencies to increase monitoring of residents considered suspicious by authorities. He also criticised young men for having long beards and wearing rolled-up…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (223+ words) The parliamentary elections in Armenia have drawn to a close, yet the country’s political arena is only just heating up. Kocharyan was initially detained in July 2018, just two months after Pashinyan swept to power, and then again in December of…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (437+ words) Port infrastructure in Makhachkala and the building of the Gamzat Tsadasa Avar Musical and Drama Theatre caught fire overnight on Thursday following a Ukrainian drone attack. According to Daghestan’s acting Head Fyodor Shchukin, all aerial targets were destroyed or suppressed…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (552+ words) Armenia has lodged a complaint within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) over the restrictions imposed by Russia since May on a long list of Armenian imports to Russia. ‘Here, not only is our communication with Russia important,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (582+ words) Georgia’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has published his sixth letter from prison – in which he criticised and mocked the reactions of the ruling party and pro-government circles to his previous letters, describing the accusations against him as a…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (505+ words) Norat Ter-Grigoryants, who served as Armenia’s Chief of the General Staff in 1992 during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, has reportedly renounced his Armenian citizenship as a protest against Armenia’s government who ‘have betrayed’ Armenians and ‘want to destroy them through the…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (84+ words) Activists and former officials cite systemic flaws: legislation riddled with ambiguities, weak enforcement, and a poorly regulated wildlife trade. Become an OC Media member and receive exclusive access to: On Armenia’s relations with Russia, including the Pashinyan–Putin meeting in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (554+ words) Black Sea Petroleum, the company behind Georgia’s Kulevi Oil Refinery, has claimed to have stopped processing Russian crude oil after the EU threatened to sanction it if it did not cease processing Russian crude by 2027. According to a statement published…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (662+ words) The EU Council has approved an EU Commission proposal to introduce temporary trade-liberalisation measures for Armenian products in order to support the country’s economy amidst continued Russian restrictions on Armenian exports. The measures are expected to be adopted after the…...