✓According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, the positive dynamics of the covid-19 situation in Armenia convinced Ukraine to allow more freedom of movement for people traveling from Yerevan to Kiev.
✓The Armenian National Assembly voted 80 to 28 today to adopt a government-proposed package that will not allow it to extend the state of emergency after it comes to an end on September 11.
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How would opening the Turkish border impact the Armenian economy?
Armenia’s border with Turkey has been closed for more than three decades. So what would happen to the country’s economy if that border was opened? CivilNet’s Mark Dovich sits down with economists Hrant Mikaelian, from the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute and Omar Kadkoy, from the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation, to discuss.
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Laurence Broers: Sustainable peace is ‘beyond the high table and
Laurence Broers, associate fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, sits down with CivilNet’s Karen Harutyunyan to speak about the developments in the region since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Laurence discusses regional geopolitics, Western mediation efforts, the bilateral negotiation track, and Russia’s role. Even weakened, Russia will remain a tremendously powerful player in the South Caucasus, Laurence says. Earlier last week, Laurence delivered a speech at a conference in Yerevan titled “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of the war in Ukraine,” organized by the Caucasus Institute.
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‘Turkey needs Russia’s weakening, but not its complete withdrawal from
Turkey is not impartial in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and supports Azerbaijan based on pragmatic calculations, according to Mustafa Aydin, professor of international relations at Turkey’s Kadir Has University. Sitting down with CivilNet’s Georgi Mirzabekyan, Aydin notes that, for Turkey to be more influential in the region, it needs to have closer ties with Armenia and Georgia. This helps explain the arrangement of powers in the South Caucasus and the convergence and divergence of major powers’ interests here. The Turkish professor was in Yerevan to participate in the “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of […]
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Tavush border village residents want their lands back from Azerbaijan
Four years after the military clashes in the Tavush-Tovuz region of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, there are renewed concerns in the northeastern part of Armenia regarding potential aggression from Azerbaijan. As efforts to reach a normalization deal continue to stall, Baku has demanded that Yerevan relinquish control of four out of eight villages, which were previously inhabited by Azerbaijanis but are located within the Republic of Armenia. Meanwhile, Armenia’s demands for the return of segments of lands belonging to 31 villages continue to be ignored.