Day: January 14, 2026
📌 Pashinyan hails Trump Route as gateway to lasting peace in South Caucasus
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan emphasized the importance of recognizing territorial integrity, inviolability of borders, and sovereignty as essential for resolving regional conflicts, during his speech on January 14 at the IACHR Security Forum titled “Armenia and Peace at the Crossroads of Risks and Opportunities”, Azernews reports.
Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom said it supplied 40.4% more gas to Georgia in 2025 than in the previous year, as part of a broader increase in gas exports to Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Gazprom also said it increased gas deliveries to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan by 22.2% in 2025. It added that 2025 marked the first time it delivered more gas to China than to Europe, with exports to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline reaching 38.8 billion cubic meters.
Data from Georgia’s National Statistics Office (Geostat) for January-November 2025 show that petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons, a category that includes natural gas, ranked as the second-largest imported commodity from Russia. During this period, Georgia imported 572.5 tons of these products from Russia, with total imports valued at USD 160.9 million. This marks a year-on-year increase of 73.7 tons from the same period in 2024, when imports stood at 498.8 tons, worth USD 140.2 million. Geostat has not yet released data for December 2025.
On December 29, the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNRC) decided to keep electricity and gas tariffs unchanged for both household and commercial consumers. The temporary electricity tariffs will remain in effect until March 31, 2026, while natural gas tariffs are set to stay in force until December 31, 2026.
Russia was Georgia’s primary natural gas supplier until 2007. However, following the launch of the Baku–Tbilisi–Erzurum gas pipeline in 2006, the deterioration of bilateral relations amid the 2006 spy row, and the August 2008 war, Georgia gradually shifted its reliance toward Azerbaijani gas. By 2009, imports from Azerbaijan had surpassed those from Russia.
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