Day: August 5, 2025

During his working visit to the city of Turkmenbashi, Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov held a meeting with his Georgian counterpart Irakli Kobakhidze, Azernews reports.

The political establishment in Tehran is once again being tested—this time over the contentious Zangazur corridor and Iran’s evolving relationship with its northwestern neighbor, Azerbaijan. At the center of the latest storm is Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, whose recent statements advocating for de-escalation and regional integration have sparked fierce backlash from conservative circles and figures close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

As of the end of June 2025, the number of transactions made using local payment cards issued by resident financial institutions in Azerbaijan reached 53,200, with a total transaction value of 55.09 million manats, Azernews reports, citing the the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA).

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The Silence of the Lambs, American suspense film, released in 1991, that was the first psychological thriller since Rebecca (1940) to win the Academy Award for best picture.

Renovación sanitaria en Isla Teja: Aguas Décima ejecuta obras en Avenida Los Robles Contempla una inversión cercana a los 133 millones de pesos y 140 días de ejecución, durante los cuales se intervendrán 205 metros lineales de red.

Back in Georgia. pic.twitter.com/Z1lcG7egFB

— Notes from Georgia/South Caucasus (Hälbig, Ralph) (@SouthCaucasus) August 5, 2025

In the annals of post-colonial statecraft, few moves have been as brazen, disruptive, and analytically revealing as India’s unilateral revocation of Article 370 on 5 August 2019. It was not merely a constitutional sleight of hand or a domestic policy decision, but it was a seismic shift in the regional power matrix, a strategic manoeuvre cloaked in nationalist populism, and a case study in how democracies can deploy legal instruments to enforce authoritarian aims.

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