Month: January 2025

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President Ilham Aliyev extends Christmas congratulations to Azerbaijan’s Orthodox Christian community | https://t.co/1nLJwXrFyS https://t.co/PyzRgc3uFA

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 5, 2025

An award-winning political cartoonist for the Washington Post has announced her resignation after a cartoon depicting the newspaper’s billionaire owner grovelling before United States President-elect Donald Trump was rejected.

International volleyball referee Eldar Zülfüqarov has received his first appointment of 2025.

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Preliminary report on causes of air crash in Aktau to be published in January-end | https://t.co/1nLJwXrFyS https://t.co/h3OOxhWTnn

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 5, 2025

The name of the distinguished theater and film actor, the late People’s Artist Fuad Poladov, has been immortalized.

On January 5, three opposition political forces, Coalition for Change, Unity-UNM, and Strong Georgia, issued a joint letter urging Pia Kauma, the President of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly, to condition her visit to Georgia by GD’s government committing to new elections and releasing the detained protesters.

The letter reads that “the self-proclaimed regime of Georgian Dream is solely focused on achieving international recognition of the results of the falsified elections of 26 October 2024, its illegitimate one-party ‘parliament’ and ‘president’.”

The statement further noted that the “self-proclaimed regime” of Georgian Dream “does not consider releasing political prisoners or holding new elections,” and the visit will only be deemed appropriate if it facilitates preparations for new elections and the release of political prisoners.

This follows some European criticism of the planned visit. On January 4, Richard Kohl, a Latvian Member of the European Parliament (MEP), wrote on X (formerly Twitter) about Kauma’s scheduled visit to Georgia on January 8-10, calling it “a disastrous and ill-timed move.” “Such a visit would hand the regime a propaganda victory, legitimizing an autocracy-in-the-making while critically undermining oscepa’s credibility,” Kohl argued. Rasa Juknevičienė, a Lithuanian MEP, also wrote about Kauma’s visit, saying it would only be “useful for Bidzina Ivanishvili, for the recognition of the state capture scheme created by him.”

Also Read:

• 23/12/2024 – OSCE Members Invoke Vienna Mechanism on Situation in Georgia
• 16/12/2024 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Leaders Condemn Violence Against Protesters in Georgia

On January 5, 2025, flight LOT-722 operated by Polish Airlines, scheduled to depart from Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Warsaw, was canceled due to a technical issue with the aircraft, Azernews ​reports.

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Коллапс в Приднестровье! Сепаратисты мерзнут без газа РФ. Молдова готовится к военной операции? – YouTube https://t.co/RIW9o9BVBE

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 5, 2025

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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 5, 2025

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Abdul Hakim al-Shishani in an interview with RBC-Ukraine – About Chechnya, Kadyrov, Russia and Ukraine’s victory | RBC-Ukraine https://t.co/Ryp16UpH9m

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) January 5, 2025