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The flags of Ukraine, Israel and Azerbaijan are burnеа in Yerevan

By:
Nikolay Marchenko

On residential and administrative buildings in the Armenian capital, including on Republic Square in the center of Yerevan, leaflets depicting the burning of Ukrainian, Israeli and Azerbaijani flags have been pasted, the Ukrainian publication Censor.net has warned. The inscriptions above and below the illustration are in Armenian and Persian, and read: "We have common enemies."

Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran, Türkiye, Syria postponed to May

By:
BLACKSEA-CASPIA

The meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, Türkiye, and Syria has been postponed to early May, Russian Ambassador to Damascus Alexander Efimov said in an interview with the Al Watan newspaper. 

"The meeting, which was scheduled for Monday, has been rescheduled for early May. Contacts and consultations continue between the parties to achieve positive results on this issue," he said.

UK sets sights on Kazakhstan – Azerbaijan as gateway to Central Asia’s resources

By:
EMIN SEVDIMALIYEV

The visit of James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the UK, to Kazakhstan led to several thought-provoking developments, which have far-reaching consequences for a number of states. During the visit, some interesting comments were made regarding the view of the UK on the future of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor. Additionally, a matter of diversification of oil exports from Kazakhstan via Azerbaijan was also discussed.

Meanwhile, in Iran … U.S. absence in the region, combined with Russian weakness, are opening the door for Iran in the Caucasus

By:
J.D. Hayworth

“We shall export our revolution to the whole world”, said the late Ayatollah Khomeini, whose Iranian revolution has been officially celebrating its 44th anniversary this week. With the world’s attention focused primarily on Ukraine, most people missed the current Iranian president’s recent speech and the anti-regime hacker attack during his live internet broadcast of the address.

Greece says goodbye to Gazprom with a painful divorce

By:
VIKTOR STEFANOV

The Greek group "Copelouzos" will soon buy out Gazprom's stake in the Greek consortium "Prometheus Gas" and will become the sole shareholder in the consortium, as it currently owns 50 percent of the capital and the rest 50 percent are held by the Russian state-owned gas giant, a source from " Copelouzos" told Agence France-Presse today, BTA reported.

"This is a divorce by mutual consent mainly because of the war in Ukraine and the European sanctions," said an employee of the Kopeluzos group, who wished to remain anonymous.

Azercosmos to provide countries of Central and East Africa with satellite internet

By:
KAMRAN GASIMOV

An agreement on long-term cooperation has been signed between Azercosmos OJSC and the Kenyan CommCarrier company, Trend reports via the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan.

The CommCarrier will serve its partners in the Central and East Africa region in the Ku band [primarily used for satellite communications] of the Azerspace-2 satellite.

Vyacheslav Volodin has proposed to the Speaker of the Mejlis of Iran to participate in a conference on the fight against terrorism

By:
BLACKSEA-CASPIA

The Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation - Vyacheslav Volodin has invited the Chairman of the Assembly of the Islamic Council of Iran (Majlis) - Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf to take part in a conference of Speakers of Parliaments on countering terrorism and strengthening regional cooperation, which will be held in April in Moscow, reports TASS.

Propagandist Solovyov called for NATO countries to be bombed from African territory

By:
OLGA BEREZYUK

Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has called for strikes against France, Poland and Great Britain from the territory of Africa because of the supply of tanks to Ukraine. He said this on the air of “Solovyov LIVE”, and a fragment of his statement was published on his Telegram channel. (https://t.me/SolovievLive/150855 ).

Russian Hugh Hefner and the playmate of the month?*

By:
MISHA FIRER

Who’s the old man with floppy bunny ears headband and the ginger head? Russian Hugh Hefner and the playmate of the month?

This is Kirill Gundyaev, Patriarch of Moscow and Kievan Rus' … the latter is in the past because Kyiv doesn’t take orders from Kirilly anymore.
The ginger woman is Maria Butina, a KGB agent and a serious nymphomaniac who slept with half of National Rifle Associations convention.

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