In the fall, amid rumors of a new mobilization, the number of requests to human rights projects helping people leave Russia increased by one and a half times compared with spring, The Bell reported. At the same time, interest in moving and actual departures remain noticeably below the 2022 peak.

#Armenia #WarinUkraine #Georgia #Gothroughtheforest #Kazakhstan #ark #mobilization #Russia #Serbia

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In August, 45 km from Yerevan, the startup Firebird launched an AI data center that by the end of 2027 is expected to grow to 300 megawatts of capacity and more than 70,000 Nvidia chips. The project is aimed primarily at foreign clients, but part of the resources is reserved for local projects and government agencies.

#nvidia #Azerbaijan #Armenia #DonaldTrump #Yerevan #NikolPashinyan

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The USA will continue to support Armenia’s defense reforms and is ready to invest «all its resources» in the army’s transformation processes, said Andrew Loomis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense of the USA. He said this on September 18 at the Armenian-American defense consultations in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

#Armenia #Yerevan #odkb #pentagon #USA #SouthCaucasus

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Ilya Yashin canceled his trip to Yerevan after being warned about risks associated with a visit to Armenia. The politician said the issue involved a physical threat and postponed the meetings scheduled there.

#Armenia #VladimirPutin #TheStateDuma #Yerevan #IlyaYashin #NewYork

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On the morning of September 19, 2023, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive against the remnants of Karabakh, where Armenians were still living. Over the next couple of weeks, almost all of them left for Armenia along the long serpentine road known as the Lachin Corridor. And like almost everything in the Karabakh conflict, this event got two names. «Ethnic cleansing», according to the Armenian side, and «voluntary resettlement», according to the Azerbaijani side. The spectacle of a hundred thousand people leaving their homes forever shocked many. But for outside audiences, the shock was short-lived. Azerbaijan managed to convince everyone so quickly that what was happening was normal and inevitable that the topic disappeared from the agenda. It was also in Russia’s interest to sweep everything under the rug so that no one would ask an awkward question. The only thing left now is to make sense of what happened and not allow propaganda myths to take root.

#Azerbaijan #Analytics #Armenia #ArmenianAzerbaijaniconflict #lifeinexile #personalexperience #NagornoKarabakh #aftertheUSSR #Russia #RubenVardanyan #ethnicconflicts

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Ivan Lyubshin said that after being detained at the border with Belarus, pages nine through twelve were missing from his passport. He discovered this later, when he went to a bank; a passport without any pages is considered invalid.

#Armenia #Belarus #caseofjustificationofterrorism #IvanLyubshin #FSB #CenterE

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Gazprom Armenia said that the supply of natural gas from Russia to Armenia will be temporarily suspended from September 15 to 25 due to scheduled maintenance and repair work in the territory of the Russian Federation. Gas supply to consumers in Armenia during this period is promised to be maintained without restrictions through internal reserves and additional volumes of gas from Iran.

#Armenia #gas #Gazprom #Iran #Russia #SouthCaucasus

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On September 8, the head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Igor Chaika, signed agreements to open 11 new partner «Russian Houses». Eight venues will appear in African countries, two more in Armenia, and for the first time such centers will also open in CIS countries.

#Armenia #IgorChaika #Rossotrudnichestvo #RussianHouse #Cng #Ukraine

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Armenia refused to extradite SOTA journalist Ilya Danilov to Russia and allowed him to return to Georgia. Danilov has already crossed the border.

#SOTA #AntiWarCommitteeofRussia #Armenia #Georgia #IlyaDanilov #Russia

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This Sunday, June 7, Armenia is holding parliamentary elections-and the campaign there is unfolding according to a logic reminiscent of Moldova’s 2025 campaign. Nikol Pashinyan’s party is building its campaign around theses similar to those used in Moldova by Maia Sandu’s party: European integration and resistance to Russian threats. However, this is driven not only by the desire to protect themselves from Moscow. Both Armenian and Moldovan societies have become disillusioned with Russia as a partner that promised support but failed to provide it at key moments. For Armenia, this resulted in the loss of Karabakh; in Moldova, residents of Transnistria nearly ran out of gas in winter. The European course is seen as an alternative and a way to escape pressure, economic restrictions, and political ultimatums from Moscow. This distancing from Russia will apparently continue as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power in the Kremlin.

#Analytics #Armenia #elections #europe #Europeanintegration #Moldova #pashinyan #Putin #Russia

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The sharp and simultaneous escalation of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations that occurred recently reveals much about the Kremlin’s entire foreign policy.

#Azerbaijan #Aliyev #Armenia #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #Yerevan #migrants #Moscow #odkb #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #RecepErdogan #Turkey #Shos #EmmanuelMacron

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