The number of Azerbaijani students in Turkey has almost tripled over the past five years, as many believe their own country’s universities are expensive and low-quality.
The prime minister has long had a confrontational attitude toward critical press. Now he has escalated the fight by involving the security services and arresting the operator of a satirical site.
Pashinyan and other members of the new government have repeatedly framed the country’s economic problems, and the solutions required, in moral and psychological terms.
Georgian security services are looking into Georgian writings that appeared in the Christchurch shooting; Armenian groups condemned his citation of their history.