Concerns are rising in international media over events on the Lachin road, linking Armenia with the Armenian-populated part of Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Yet, the lack of insight into the issue is leading Azerbaijanis to perceive the coverage as biased. #LachinRoad #Karabakh Azerbaijan restricted the Lachin border point for humanitarian aid from Armenia, but hasn't fully blocked it or rejected the aid. An alternative route is offered by Azerbaijan, but Armenia refuses taking it, seemingly aiming to gain eventually extraterritoriality for the road.

"convergence of multi-level integration processes" - the discourse promoted by Russia (and Belarus) prior to the war in Ukraine considered bringing regional organizations in the post-Soviet space - the CIS, the CSTO, and the EAEU closer to each other. The SCO was out of this. Before Russia was somewhat sceptical about bringing the CIS and the CSTO closer to the SCO Instead, it emphasized approximation between the CIS and the CSTO. Two memorandums on cooperation were adopted by these organizations in 2011 and 2018. Things seem to have changed a bit.

The tension between Iran & Azerbaijan has reached a new level. IR accused Azer in allowing Israel to have presence on Aze's regions bordering IR, seeing it as 'detrimental to the existence of Aze'. Az Presid. requested evidence for this accusation, posing with a Israeli drone. Iran also call on Russia to discuss the presence of 'Zionists and terrorists' in Karabakh. Israeli ambassador in Russia called Iran's accusation 'stupidity', while Armenian MFA welcomed Iran's greater role in the stabilization of the region'.