Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the launch of what he described as an ‘unprecedented humanitarian operation’ for residents of the Gaza Strip. ➡️ Read more:

Armenia has adopted a decision to allocate $3.25 million to US law firm Arnold & Porter to represent Armenia at the Stockholm Arbitration Court in its legal battle against detained tycoon Samvel Karapetyan over the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA).

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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the country’s defence spending may not see an increase in 2026, saying it was ‘logical’. Pashinyan has previously noted that Armenia and Azerbaijan had ‘established’ peace.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a man — believed to be an Azerbaijani national — alleging he had been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) to smuggle classified military documents to Kyiv.

Georgia’s Interior Ministry has said 65 Ukrainians held for months in poor conditions near the Russian border have been returned to Ukraine on a charter flight, while an unspecified number remain detained in poor conditions.

A march in support of independent online media in Georgia is taking place on Tbilisi’s central Rustaveli Avenue.

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Georgia’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has launched an inspection into another local civil society organisation under FARA. This time, the bureau targeted the Economic Policy Research Centre, warning it of potential criminal liability for violating the law.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksei Overchuk roughly two weeks after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed on the Trump Route.

The US was absent from a joint statement by several UN Security Council members condemning Russia in the August 2008 War. This was reportedly the first time the US has not joined statements condemning Russia for the war.

The Chair of Georgia’s Gori Municipal Council and a member of the ruling Georgian Dream party has reportedly praised Russian troops for entering the town during the August 2008 War, calling them ‘peacekeepers’. ➡️ Read more:

The Chair of Georgia’s Gori Municipal Council and a member of the ruling Georgian Dream party has reportedly praised Russian troops for entering the town during the August 2008 War, calling them ‘peacekeepers’.

The representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians have submitted an appeal to the OSCE participating states, urging them ‘to exercise their powers, including the right of veto if necessary, to prevent the dissolution of the Minsk Group’.

The Minister of the Chechen Republic for Physical Culture and Sport, Akhmat Kadyrov, who is also Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov’s eldest son, has been awarded the title of ‘Honorary Citizen of Gudermes District’. ➡️ Read more:

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US President Donald Trump has claimed that he stopped a war between ‘Aber-baijan’ and Albania during a long-winded rant to conservative talk show host Mark Levin. ➡️ Read more:

Adjara’s wooden mosques — as artistic, communal, and architectural spaces — tell the story of the local Muslim community in Georgia.

The Tbilisi City Court has fined Oto Parulava, Deputy Secretary General of the opposition party Lelo — Strong Georgia, for refusing a police drug test, made punishable under controversial amendments adopted in April.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has filed a claim with the Sovetsky District Court in Makhachkala to designate former MP Magomed Gadzhiev, his relatives, and affiliates an ‘extremist group’.

A Georgian citizen has been detained by Russian troops near the village of Kveshi, near the city of Gori, Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) reported on Tuesday.