How Armenia is trying to build a Silicon Valley in the Caucasus bbc.in/4cUxHgz

Today (29 April) is the 30tth birthday of peace activist Bahruz Samadov. He has been kept in detention for 251 days now. Reason? He wrote in favor of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. #FreeBahruz

Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in Russian-occupied Ukraine in 2022 while reporting on the torture of Ukrainian civilians held in informal detention centers by Russia. In October 2024, she was declared dead in Russian captivity. We investigated what happened to her.

Arsenal's really good at ruining weekends

just some incredible quotes in this thread

If you want to read one thing about the Eastern Front on this VE Day, read Shalamov's "Major Pugachov’s Last Battle" about a break-out attempt of a Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian & Georgian soldier from Stalin's camp. Over 200,000s Soviet PoWs who survived Nazis were sent to GULAG

From Ulviyya Guliyeva, whom most of you know as Ulviyya Ali: If you are reading this message, it means I have been slandered and unlawfully imprisoned for my journalistic work.

Horrible things are happening to very brave people in Azerbaijan, and nobody in the West lifts a finger to help them because we are in an era of "hyper-transactional geopolitics," to quote Ursula von der Leyen