17 March 2025
Mike Waltz: Conflict in the South Caucasus must end. I spoke this week with Mr. Hikmet Hajiyev, the national security advisor for President Aliyev in Azerbaijan.  We are pleased Azerbaijan and Armenia have taken a big step forward and agreed to a peace treaty. I told him we should finalize this peace deal now, release the prisoners, and work together to make the region more secure and prosperous
Daily rallies continue in Tbilisi for the 108th day of non-stop GeorgiaProtests, with two groups of protesters gathering at parliament and Georgian Public Broadcaster's office and later uniting on Rustaveli Avenue. Video: Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with Putin
3 day ago
The area of the fire at the oil refinery in Tuapse after is more than 1 thousand square meters, - the governor
Trump's special envoy Whitkoff's plane has left Russia and is now in Baku, according to Flightradar data
Fire at the oil refinery in Tuapse after drone strikes3 day ago
Fire at the oil refinery in Tuapse after drone strikes
Happening now on Rustaveli Avenue: the 106th day of nationwide GeorgiaProtests.“Whose country is this Ours. Glory to Georgia.” chant the protesters
Pashinyan: Yerevan is ready to begin consultations on the timing of signing a peace treaty with Baku.
Kobakhidze claims that there were four failed revolution attempts in Georgia: by parties, by journalists, by NGOs, and the last one - “by nobody”, calling the ongoing popular protest the attempted revolution by “amorphous mass.”
4 day ago
Most of the points of the text of the peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia have already been agreed upon, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
"Trade unions for solidarity" - ten independent labor unions join daily assemblies at Public Broadcaster's office to rally for social solidarity and demand fair coverage. Day 105 of non-stop GeorgiaProtests
104th day of Georgia’s uninterrupted protest demanding new elections and the release of all political prisoners
Tbilisi State University fired two lecturers. Dismissals are allegedly political, as the two were active supporters of pro-EU protests
Demonstrators gather at Tbilisi Theater University after ethics commission revoked status of several students a day after police fined and forced them to leave university premises over their non-stop sit-in protest
The group of protesters again makes its way to the rear entrance of parliament. Police remain mobilized at the entrance and in the nearby garden. Day 100 of GeorgiaProtests
100th day of continuous pro-European protests in Georgia
Tbilisi City Hall employee Ana Kamladze has been fired for participating in protests
1 week ago
Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev speak via videoconference at the opening ceremony of Igdir-Nakhchivan Natural Gas Pipeline in Ankara
1 week ago
A counter-terrorist operation regime has been declared in the village of Semender in Makhachkala, and operational search activities are being carried out, the mayor's office reported
Attack on a polling station in the Abkhazian village of Tsandrypsh2 week ago
Attack on a polling station in the Abkhazian village of Tsandrypsh
President @Zourabichvili_S proposes "a path to new elections" in Georgia: 1. Setting conditions for elections 2. Preparing an "army" of election commissions and observers 3. Preventing election fraud with the involvement of international partners 4. Coordination among political forces for new elections 5. A unified electoral program – "Georgian Charter" and its priorities: 1) Release of political prisoners 2) Repeal of Russian laws 3) Restoration of a fair judiciary
Ukraine solidarity march arrives at the parliament. Tbilisi's Rustaveli Avenue closed for traffic, despite police attempts to prevent road blockage. Day 89 of GeorgiaProtests
“Down with the rotten Russian empire” – a solidarity rally and a march were held in Tbilisi three years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Cosponsors of the U.S. draft resolution at the UN general assembly on war in Ukraine: Israel, Hungary, Georgia and North Macedonia
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov: Today is a sad date in the history of the Chechen people: on February 23, 1944, by the inhuman order of the damned Joseph Stalin, the Chechens and Ingush were forcibly deported to Siberia and Central Asia. Operation Lentil was led by Lavrenty Beria. This criminal order led to casualties: thousands of people died on the road, in the harsh conditions of special settlements, from hunger, cold and disease.
3 week ago
Azerbaijan has announced that it will close the BBC's Baku office, a move that the British media outlet described as "restrictive of press freedom."
Some of the usual chants at the Georgia Protests: “Until the end.” “The end of winter is coming - the people’s spring is arriving.” “Georgia, revolt.” “We won’t stop, schedule the elections.”
Day 85 of the protest: reading names of ten more Georgians killed in Ukraine to pay tribute to them. "Glory to heroes." They chant
Armenian PM calls for referendum on new constitution
Rustaveli avenue, blocked for the 84th consecutive night