Day: November 4, 2025

As long as Russia’s tyranny and Iran’s despotic regime exist, lasting peace in the South Caucasus will remain difficult.
These powers fuel tension and hinder nations’ free will.
The U.S. peace initiatives are commendable. ✌️🕊️ #Peace #Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus

— Eli huseynov (@elihuseynov179) November 4, 2025

According to the draft law “On the State Budget of the Republic of Azerbaijan for 2026,” total revenues from value-added tax (VAT) are projected to reach 4,466.3 million manats next year. As reported by Azernews, the figure was discussed during today’s meeting of the Milli Majlis (Parliament of Azerbaijan) Committee for Economic Policy, Industries and Enterprising.

The draft indicates that this amount exceeds the 2025 forecast by…

Aleksei Shevtsov on Georgia

Deputy Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Aleksei Shevtsov said that CIS and CSTO member states share Russia’s commitment to defending “traditional spiritual and moral values.” Speaking about Russia’s like-minded partners, Shevtsov also mentioned Georgia.

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Aleksei Shevtsov: “Although the peoples and countries of the CIS are all different, we share many things in common. Above all, it is our commitment to traditional spiritual and moral values. One of the priorities of our foreign policy activity is to promote the image of the Russian Federation as a guardian and defender of traditional spiritual and moral values. In this regard, Russia has many like-minded partners among the CIS, BRICS, and CSTO countries.

The countries of the South Caucasus, like the CIS as a whole, are facing increasing pressure from Westerners seeking to impose their destructive values.

In Georgia, the authorities have found both the strength and the means to resist the onslaught on traditional ways of life and the attempts to introduce pseudo-values such as LGBT, which are completely incompatible with the peoples of the Caucasus.

Russian legislation that protects traditional values should also be applied across the CIS space, primarily as legislative experience. Our country’s main legal frameworks — the Constitution and the National Security Strategy — affirm this commitment to traditional values. There are also specific laws, such as those improving the regulation of non-profit organisations.”

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Aleksei Shevtsov on Georgia

⭕Russian General Valery Gerasimov reported to Putin that Ukrainian forces had been completely surrounded in #Pokrovsk and #Mirnograd, Donetsk region. After that, on October 30, Putin, dressed in military uniform, announced his readiness to “suspend fighting for a few hours” to allow foreign media to work.

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The South Caucasus stands once again at an ideological crossroads, between memory and modernity, between the pursuit of global relevance and the preservation of identity. The region has long been shaped by powerful currents: empire and independence, foreign influence and national revival. Yet today, a new question dominates the horizon, should nations abandon their inherited identity to align with the global order, or strengthen it to shape their own destiny?