South Caucasus

March 05, 2026 23:29

• A Romanian citizen was convicted in Kuban in an espionage case.

  The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Romanian citizen Adrian-David Kercho to 15 years in prison for espionage on behalf of Ukraine. In December 2024, security forces detained him in Abkhazia, and in April 2025, the FSB announced his arrest in Sochi.

March 05, 2026 22:32

• Protesters on Rustaveli reacted to the new tightening of laws

  On the 463rd day of continuous protests outside the Georgian parliament building, amendments criminalizing non-recognition of government bodies and “extremism against the constitutional order” came into force.

March 05, 2026 21:29

• Baku analysts assessed the consequences of the attack on Nakhchivan for relations with Iran.

  The drone attack on the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was likely deliberate, but Azerbaijan will initially limit itself to diplomatic and political measures, avoiding direct military escalation, according to analysts in Baku.

March 05, 2026 20:03

• The Court of Appeal released Archbishop Khachatryan.

  The court imposed territorial restrictions on Khachatryan, prohibiting him from leaving the Vagharshapat community. The cleric is also prohibited from communicating with witnesses in the case.

March 05, 2026 19:40

• Uncertainty in drone data over Abkhazia has worried commentators.

  The Secretary of the Abkhazian Security Council stated that more than half of the drones fell into the sea, with only 14 reaching land. He was unable to identify their origin. Social media users demanded answers about the source of the threat.

March 05, 2026 19:05

• Shykhlinsky was sentenced to a long term.

  The Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced Shahin Shykhlinski, the former head of the Azerbaijani diaspora in the Urals, to 22 years in a maximum-security prison colony. Six other defendants in the case of the murder of local entrepreneurs will serve between ten and twenty years in a maximum-security prison colony.

March 05, 2026 16:40

• The Azerbaijani army has been put on alert after the attack on Nakhchivan.

  The drone attack on the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic was a deliberate terrorist attack by Iran, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declared today, demanding an apology and punishment for those responsible. He ordered the armed forces to be put on alert. The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case in connection with the strikes on civilian infrastructure.

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