The country's president blamed the main opposition party for instigating violence at the rally, though the party denied it. Several activists have been detained.
The international response to the clashes – the worst since 2016 – has tended to treat both sides equally, while each side insists that the other is to blame.
A proposal from Washington to condition some aid on Georgia’s making more progress on democracy, corruption and protecting foreign investors has become a political football in Tbilisi.
The two presidents spoke following the violent breakup of a protest by Azerbaijani labor migrants in Dagestan. Details of a possible diplomatic resolution of the situation have been scant, however.
Eight years ago, the Azerbaijani government tried to make a hero out of a soldier who killed an Armenian soldier in his sleep. But now it wants to drop the subject.
This newest escalation of the history wars threatens to drag the Caucasus into the larger post-Soviet struggle over the memory of World War II that has poisoned ties between Russia and many of its neighbors.
The allegations are not taken very seriously outside Georgia's opposition, but they are taking on new life after Tbilisi terminated its contract with an American energy company.
The move, ahead of commemorations of the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II, comes after similar decisions in the Russian-backed breakaway areas of Eastern Ukraine.
Some hard talk from the Russian foreign minister has led to recriminations in Yerevan and the prospect of Azerbaijan’s foreign minister getting sacked.
Armed forces on both sides appear not to have made many concessions to the need to social distance, but diplomats have held their first videoconference as part of the ongoing peace negotiations.
