Reports of the fighting on the contact line of Azerbaijani and Armenian forces on the border of Armenia and Nakhchivan are untrue, according to comments on this topic in social networks. In particular, users of the network, with reference to the local population informed about the fighting on the border Sadarak, and Shahbuz Julfa district of Nakhchivan. The same sources claimed that Armenians seized the Lakatag height and hold it.
In turn, the press service of the Defense Ministry said that the situation at the Nakhchivan direction is stable and is under control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces. At the same time, local residents reported Turan correspondent, that intense gunfire was heard in the area of height Lyakyatag last night and early this morning. "Shooting from machine guns lasted more than two hours," said one of the locals. Note that the report of the Ministry of Defense writes nothing about skirmishes on the front line. -03B-
Politics
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Moscow on January 17 and make statements for the press, according to the Kremlin's press service.
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On January 13, the trial in the case of public activist Nijat Ibrahim continued in the Baku Serious Crimes Court under the chairmanship of Judge Aygun Gurbanova. The trial was suspended after Ibrahim, in protest against the illegal arrest, began banging his head against the "aquarium cage", trying to commit suicide. At the beginning of the trial, he stated that he had been illegally detained for 4 months, and because of this, his family in Moldova was in a difficult situation, Turan announced this on its Twitter.
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The International Committee of Concerned Scholars (ICS) has appealed to the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, requesting his assistance in securing the release of the arrested researcher, Igbal Abilov. The ICS expressed concern that Abilov's arrest "may be related to his research on ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan, conducted in collaboration with scholars from Armenia."
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Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia, Faig Guliyev.
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