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What Happened The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has claimed that peace with Armenia is closer "than ever before." He made the claim in a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was in Azerbaijan in order to hold a series of meetings with Aliyev. Secretary Stoltenberg travelled to Armenia on Tuesday in order to hold talks...

The former parliament building of the self declared Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) in Stepanakert has reportedly been partially demolished by Azerbaijan. https://twitter.com/nkobserver/status/1764386889887310326?s=46&t=We8RLpx8YdsN15-tpkJtww Destruction of the building seemingly began in February. The building formerly hosted the government of Artsakh, a region which was populated by Armenians but internationally recognized as Azeri territory. Artsakh had operated independently since 1991, however this ended after an...

According to sources in Islamabad, Pakistan is settling it's largest ever defense contract, which will see Azerbaijan getting an unknown number of JF-17 Thunders. The sale, projected to be about $1.6 billion USD, will allow Azerbaijan to replace it's current fleet of Russian MiG-29s with Pakistan's domestically produced jet. The JF-17 was a joint-development project by Pakistan and the Chinese...

Growing Closer The relationship between France and Armenia has grown stronger yet again as within the past several days Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has visited France for important talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. Following these talks, the French defence minister, Sebastien Lecornu, arrived in Armenia to meet with Armenia's own defence minister, Suren Papikyan. Lecornu's visit coincided with the...

What's Happening Azeri influencer Kamil Zeynalli was briefly detained for a few hours at the Moscow airport on February 21st by Russian police who were acting upon an arrest warrant issued by Armenia for Zeynalli that dates back to May. https://twitter.com/ghmv2research/status/1760644398797176849?s=46&t=We8RLpx8YdsN15-tpkJtww Publicly, Armenia stated that Zeynalli is wanted on murder charges, which occurred during the 2020 44-Day war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh, the...