Source link Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree to hold the vote a year earlier than planned The presidential election in Azerbaijan will be held next February instead of in 2025, President Ilham Aliyev announced on Thursday. Aliyev has led the country for the past 20 years, securing his fourth term in 2018. […]
Source link The chief of security in Kyrgyzstan wants all the sites shut down across the country by December 1 Kyrgyzstan’s authorities are seeking to close establishments offering sex services in the country by December 1. The drive is spearheaded by Kamchybek Tashiev, the head of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), the agency […]
Source link Baku claims AbzasMedia was conducting illegal financial operations involving the US, French and German embassies Azerbaijan has filed complaints with the US, Germany and France over the illegal funding of a local media outlet, which has published investigations into government corruption. Three of its journalists were recently arrested on accusations of currency smuggling. […]
Source link The Baltic nations slammed the organization for inviting Russia’s top diplomat to an upcoming summit Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have said they will not attend this week’s meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), condemning Moscow’s expected participation in the event. The three former Soviet countries announced plans to […]
Source link The ‘hostile’ move by Moldova won’t be left unanswered, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned By agreeing to abide by the EU’s sanctions against Russia, the government of Moldova has taken another “hostile step” aimed at the destruction of bilateral relations with the country, the foreign ministry in Moscow has said. On Friday, […]
Source link The Israeli government’s initiative allows people to report anti-Semitic threats and abuse People from Russia and other former Soviet republics can now report cases of anti-Semitism via a special hotline set up by the Israeli government, the Ynet media outlet has reported. The initiative comes less than a month after anti-Jewish riots in […]
Source link Armenia should trust its neighbors over faraway “friends,” Turkish president Erdogan has said Armenia should work with Türkiye and Azerbaijan to build peace instead of looking to the West for weapons and training, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, in thinly veiled criticism of the US and France. Some Western powers […]
Source link Moldova must do better than just 78% compliance with Brussels, the bloc’s envoy has said The European Union expects Moldova to fully implement sanctions against Russia in order to demonstrate “European values,” the bloc’s ambassador in the former Soviet republic said on Tuesday. If Chisinau truly wants to join the EU some day, […]