Russia has recalled the ambassador from Yerevan for consultations
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that its ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin had been summoned to Moscow for consultations, but the reason for this was not specified. This happened after Prime Minister Pashinyan announced the suspension of Armenia's membership in the CSTO and stopped financing the organization. A few days ago, he accused the two CSTO countries of helping Azerbaijan during the war in Karabakh.
According to him, these countries imitated Armenia's assistance, but the war was not because of Nagorno-Karabakh, but in order to change the regime in Armenia," Pashinyan said, without specifying which countries he meant, but it is not difficult to guess that he was hinting at Russia and Belarus.
Pashinyan's statement was made after the visit of the President of Belarus to Baku, where Lukashenko said that he had discussed with Ilham Aliyev the inevitable war with Armenia and that this war "can be won."
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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