Since the restoration of independence in the early 1990s, the challenges that befell the Armenian people, including the loss of Artsakh, the preceding and subsequent events, became the gravest challenge that shook the foundations of the Armenian national-state life and ideology.
At the end of January 2023, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) put forward a project on creation of a new trade route in the Middle East called the “Development Road”, which envisages to construction of a railway and a multi-lane highway from the Persian Gulf through Iraq to Turkey, to the Mediterranean port of Mersin.
Judging by the Azerbaijani leadership's behavior, this country is trying to prolong the negotiation process and postpone the signing of a peace treaty with Armenia for an indefinite period.
On October 2, 2024, the Israeli government declared UN Secretary-General António Guterres persona non grata. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz officially notified that Guterres was banned from entering the Jewish state.
The importance of the Middle Corridor (also known as the Central Corridor or the “Trans-Caspian Transport Route”) has increased sharply in 2022-2024 against the background of the reform of the Eurasian land and sea routes due to the war in Ukraine and the blockade of the Suez Canal.
Since 01.09.2024, the RF has suspended its social payments in Abkhazia, the beneficiaries of which were teachers, doctors, and employees of law-enforcement structures.
The ceasefire in 2020 that ended the Second Artsakh War (44-Day War) instigated a post war examination, including research to better understand Armenia’s political and military failures.