Weekly Developments

Caucasus developments — 30 August 2026

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Armenia spent the week doing two things at once, and neither concerned Azerbaijan. Its Anti-Corruption Committee detained second president Robert Kocharyan on 25 August and had him remanded for two months, indicted his son and nine others including third president Serzh Sargsyan, and barred Sargsyan from leaving the country; on 28 August the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church appeared in court. In the same days Pashinyan said he would be glad if Armenia were expelled from the CSTO and that Yerevan would soon begin formally applying for EU membership, and Moscow answered that the West is blackmailing Armenia. The peace file itself moved only technically, at an electricity meeting in Lachin.

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