Author: Aleksandr Tavkhelidze

A charismatic viral video star who stands just over three feet tall has become the most beloved man in the U.F.C. universe — even though he doesn’t actually fight. At an N.B.A. game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the full celebrity treatment. He chatted pregame with the Mavericks star Luka Doncic, who posed with him for a photo. When Hasbulla’s face appeared on the Jumbotron, the crowd went wild. And, like everyone who’s anyone, he sat courtside at the Staples Center, with one major difference: He was perched on his…

A report from the US Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the Albanian government attempted to influence then US President Donald Trump by spending heftily in a hotel he owned. Between 2017 and 2020, Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama, his advisors and the former minister of Infrastructure, Damian Gjiknuri, spent some $6,000 US while staying at the Trump International hotel in Washington DC, owned by then US President Donald Trump. The details of these expenditures are part of a 156-page report called “White House for sale, How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President Trump” that was produced by…

During November 2023, the State Border Service of Azerbaijan continued measures to ensure the reliable protection of the state border, fight against smuggling, illegal migration, and the illegal circulation of narcotics, News.az the Press Center of the Service. 38 people were detained for violating the state border during the month, 18 of them from Azerbaijan, 10 from Pakistan, 5 from Iran, 1 from Sri Lanka, 1 from Tajikistan, 1 – was a citizen of Algeria, 1 of India and 1 of Nigeria. As part of measures to combat illegal migration, 14 people were detained while trying to cross the state border with fake date…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Friday that Russia had not yet delivered weapons his country had paid for and that talks were underway to try to find a solution, Russian state news agency TASS reported. Relations between Russia and Armenia, treaty allies, have soured in recent months, with Pashinyan accusing Moscow of failing to support his country in its conflict with longtime rival Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Baku’s forces in September recaptured Karabakh, which is viewed internationally as part of Azerbaijan, prompting more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee the territory into Armenia as Russian…

Armenian-born residents of Garabakh cannot be considered Azerbaijani citizens, as they have not yet applied for Azerbaijani citizenship. Most of them already have Armenian passports. There are less than a thousand people who have applied for Azerbaijani citizenship. Ambassador Elchin Amirbayov, the representative of the President of Azerbaijan on special assignments, said this in an interview with Italy’s “In Terris” while answering the questions of the correspondent about the Garabagh war, the migration of Armenians, their return, and plans for the establishment of sustainable peace in the South Caucasus, Azernews reports. “Does Azerbaijan intend to invade Armenia in the near…

Last month, US district judge Steve Jones ordered Georgia to redraw its legislative maps in a 516-page order – requiring the Republican-controlled state senate to create a new Black-majority district. The senate responded Friday afternoon with a redrawn congressional map that added hundreds of thousands of Black voting-age residents to Georgia’s sixth district, currently held by Republican Rich McCormick. But it does so by blowing up Georgia’s seventh district, held by gun control advocate and potential Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lucy McBath. Georgia’s current seventh district is centered in Gwinnett county, a well-developed suburb north-east of Atlanta. This is the second time Republicans have tried…

Ex-President Jimmy Carter has attended a memorial service for his wife Rosalynn in Georgia, in a rare public appearance since entering hospice care 10 months ago. Mr Carter, 99, arrived at the service in a wheelchair and dressed in a dark suit, flanked by his four children. “My mother was the glue that held our family together,” the couple’s son, Chip Carter, told guests – who included President Joe Biden. Mrs Carter died aged 96 this month. She was diagnosed with dementia in May and entered hospice care in Georgia in the days before her death. Her 77-year marriage to…

No. 2 Georgia showed just how good it can be in a 52-17 win over No. 9 Ole Miss. The Bulldogs were fantastic in all facets as Ole Miss got out to a fast start and stalled after that. Georgia outscored Ole Miss 45-7 after the Rebels scored a touchdown on the first drive of the game. Georgia led 28-14 at halftime after Ole Miss tied the game at 14-14 early in the second quarter. Daijun Edwards capped an eight-play, 75-yard drive to give Georgia the lead for good and then Kendall Milton’s run less than eight plays later ended…

Azerbaijan’s president has raised the national flag over the capital of the former breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan retook the territory last month in a 24-hour lightning military offensive, prompting the vast majority of its ethnic Armenian population to flee. President Ilham Aliyev was pictured raising his nation’s flag over the capital, which was known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan and as Stepanakert by Armenians. He also delivered a speech, his presidential office said. Most of the territory’s population of 120,000 ethnic Armenians have now fled to Armenia, many fearing persecution – although Azerbaijan had pledged to respect their rights. Armenia’s Prime Minister,…

For months, as the war in Ukraine has ground increasingly towards stalemate, Russian foreign policy experts and media figures have pushed for a new kind of escalation: renewed nuclear tests. Just a few days ago, on Oct. 2, RT firebrand Margarita Simonyan said that Russia should test a nuclear weapon “someplace in Siberia” to send a “nuclear ultimatum” to the West. On Oct. 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the growing calls for nuclear testing at a meeting of Russian foreign policy experts at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi. “I hear calls to start testing nuclear weapons, to return to testing,”…