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Putin called Aliyev, discussed the situation in Transcaucasia, including the preparation of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, border delimitation, and unblocking transport communications

EU Statement on Georgia: "We are concerned by the statements of the Prime Minister and other Georgian Dream officials regarding the ban of all opposition parties. We recall the need to uphold the basic principles of democracy - of which political pluralism is a key part"

According to @formulatv, Georgian Dream party wants to declare Orthodox Christianity as the state’s official religion

The Georgian government has dismissed its ambassadors to the UK and Switzerland, along with its representatives to NATO and Geneva. They will end their service between mid-Sep and mid-Oct, just ahead of #GeVOTE2024. No further information about the decision is available

Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan officially became allies President Ilham Aliyev and Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the "Agreement on alliance relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Uzbekistan".

Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said he spoke with Putin on the phone and discussed the Russian president's visit to Azerbaijan

16 years old boy killed, 3 children more wounded as result of RGD-5 grenade explosion in residential house in Novorosiysk

Putin is visiting Chechnya, met with Kadyrov

Baku has officially submitted an application to join BRICS, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported

Putin has visited a site of Beslan school siege

Azerbaijani engineering activity near Aravus village in Syunik. Satellite images show the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have significantly expanded the line of trenches in the border area. These works have been carried out in last few months

Lukashenka: "Who needs Armenians, besides us Nobody needs them. What France? What Macron? Tomorrow Macron won’t be there, and everyone will forget about Armenia."

2 opposition alliances, Coalition for Change and Unity to Save Georgia, have expanded as the opposition seeks to amalgamate into blocks ahead of the October parliamentary elections

Russia will be happy if it can do something to sign a peace agreement and demarcate the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Putin

The Armenian Defense Ministry has denied Baku's report on shelling of Azerbaijani positions in the border zone. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's report that on August 18 at about 23:50, Armenian Armed Forces units opened fire in the direction of Azerbaijani positions located in the eastern part of the border zone is not true

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported the interception of an Armenian quadcopter that was attempting to conduct reconnaissance flights over the positions of the republic's army on the border between the two countries.

Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense: Our positions in the direction of Nakhchivan have been fired upon again.

Putin met with Aliyev in Baku

Putin arrives in Baku on state visit

Black smoke at the seaport area in Sochi

Putin to Pay State Visit to Azerbaijan on August 18-19 — Kremlin

The statement by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry that allegedly on August 16 at about 03:20, units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of Azerbaijani positions located in the western part of the border zone does not correspond to reality, - Armenian Defense Ministry

Azerbaijan Accuses Armenia of Shelling Positions

Yerevan denies Baku's statement on shelling of Azerbaijani positions in Nakhichevan: The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry's statement that allegedly on August 15 at about 18:10, units of the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of Azerbaijani positions located in the southwestern part of the border zone is not true

Azerbaijani positions in the direction of Nakhchivan came under fire

@Meta took down a Russian-led network of coordinated inauthentic behavior targeting Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. In Georgia, they criticised protests against the foreign agent law and backed the ruling Georgian Dream party

State Dept on Zakharova's latest comments accusing the West of "trying to break the South Caucasus’ union" "It is Russia that has invaded its neighbors, that it has occupied its neighbor’s territory and continues to conduct war against its neighbours," DoS Spox tells

India announced the supply of Akash-1S anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM) to Armenia by the end of 2024, reports Indian Defense Research Wing

Secretary Blinken on Marking 16 Years Since Russia’s Invasion of Georgia: Secretary Blinken on Marking 16 Years Since Russia’s Invasion of Georgia "Today we mark sixteen years since Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Georgia and remember those killed, injured, or displaced by Russia’s military campaign and illegal occupation. To this day, Russia continues to occupy 20 percent of Georgia’s territory and impose its will on the people there, including by claiming the transfer of strategically important lands in Abkhazia to Russia and taking steps to establish a permanent naval base in Ochamchire."

United States urges Georgian authorities to 'expeditiously' release self-exiled Azerbaijani journalist, Afgan Sadigov, who was detained in Tbilisi last week and placed in a deportation center, a State Dept Spox tells