Day: January 22, 2026

🇦🇲As far as I was able to notice in five minutes, the funding has begun to reach the executors on the ground.

#Armenia #SouthCaucasus #hybridwarfarpic.x.com/b0haSgpz1J1J

— Arthur Maghakian (@ArMaghak) Jan 22, 2026

The 7th Commercial Diplomacy Awards Ceremony of the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Türkiye (DEİK) was held at the Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, with the participation of Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat and DEİK President Nail Olpak.

To ensure their luggage arrives safely at their destination, many travelers wrap their suitcases in plastic. However, the upcoming EU regulation aims to end this practice in a bid to protect the environment. Whether to safeguard a suitcase from scratches or to prevent it from bursting under pudgy loads, plastic-wrapped luggage has long been a common sight at airports—but that era is coming to an end, Azernews reports.

‘Ruthless’ insurance companies are ‘destroying our country,’ Georgia Republicans say on hot mic  al.com

Kia on Thursday announced it will lower prices on several electric vehicle (EV) models in South Korea, responding to intensified competition from Tesla and other foreign automakers targeting price-sensitive buyers, Azernews reports, citing Korean media.

Protester Rezi Dumbadze was found guilty of “obstructing people’s movement” by standing on a sidewalk during a protest in front of Parliament on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue, with a judge issuing a verbal warning to him in the first ruling of similar cases, most of which have been dismissed or postponed.

According to RFE/RL’s Georgian Service, the judge who issued the ruling is Tornike Kapanadze. He was a judge in the western Georgian town of Ozurgeti from 2021 to 2025 before being transferred to Tbilisi in November 2025.

Dozens of protesters have been accused of “obstructing the movement of people” during routine nightly rallies on Rustaveli Avenue, where demonstrators have gathered since November 28, 2024. “Obstruction of free movement of people” became an administrative offense under the December legislative changes that made it punishable by up to 15 days of detention. This followed October measures that resulted in pushing protesters from roads, where they had blocked traffic, onto sidewalks, amid Georgian Dream’s continued efforts to curb anti-government demonstrations.

As the first summonses for “obstructing people’s movement” were reported days before the New Year, they were rescheduled until after the holidays. In early to mid January, several protesters said that their cases were dismissed or reclassified as criminal matters, in what appeared to reflect judges’ reluctance to impose detention for the offense that critics say amounts to just standing on a sidewalk during a protest.

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