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6 days ago | 
oc-media.org | Mikheil Gvadzabia |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberGeorgian Dream has passed legislative amendments that toughen penalties for drug-related offenses. With the changes adopted on Wednesday, the state policy has become harsher not only towards drug dealers but also users.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Aytan Farhadova |Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberThe brother of kidnapped Talysh historian Zahiraddin Ibrahimov has accused Azerbaijan of ‘hunting’ Talysh people, particularly those who have some influence and respect within the greater population.
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oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Xandie Kuenning |Arshaluys Barseghyan
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberOn Thursday, Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and other officials in Baku. Fajon and her Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov also presided over the opening of the Azerbaijan–Slovenia Business Forum.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Aytan Farhadova |Xandie Kuenning |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberA member of the opposition Azerbaijani Popular Front Party has been sentenced to five years in prison on drug charges, after he says drugs were planted on him by police.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Aytan Farhadova |Robin Fabbro |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberGeorgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili has met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku during his first foreign trip since his inauguration in December 2024.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Xandie Kuenning |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberFor the past six weeks, Hungary has been blocking €10 million ($11 million) in non-lethal military aid to Armenia from the EU’s European Peace Facility (EPF), RFE/RL reported on Monday, citing sources.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Aytan Farhadova |Nate Ostiller |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Xandie Kuenning
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberOn Friday, a meeting was held between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the interim president of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, during the Fourth Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Arshaluys Barseghyan |Nate Ostiller |Xandie Kuenning |Aytan Farhadova
On 11 April, Albert Arustamyan, a 71-year-old resident of Yerevan’s Zeytun district, was acquitted of charges of hooliganism for throwing an apple towards Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a sign of protest in August 2024. Arustamyan was a native and former resident of Nagorno-Karabakh. The episode occurred on 23 August 2024 during a visit by Pashinyan to one of his relatives living in the same building.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Xandie Kuenning |Nate Ostiller |Aytan Farhadova |Elizaveta Chukharova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberRussia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has stated that Russia is ready to restore diplomatic relations with Georgia, but does not intend to abandon its decision to recognise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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1 week ago | 
oc-media.org | Nate Ostiller |Arshaluys Barseghyan |Xandie Kuenning |Aytan Farhadova
Amidst the current global turmoil, small news outlets like ours could be the first to close. Help us get off grants and become the first reader-funded news site in the Caucasus, and keep telling the stories that matter. Become a memberOn 10 April, a conference organised by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, called ‘Christianity in Azerbaijan: History and Modernity’, was held in Rome.
