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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Sochi ahead of trilateral talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev a month after the worst clashes between the two countries since their war in 2020. Moscow is seeking to reassert its role as a key powerbroker between the Caucasus arch-foes amid the growing Western engagement in the region, where Russia -- distracted by its war in Ukraine -- is visibly losing influence after decades of domination. IMAGES
Armenian police and Russian peacekeepers can be seen on the closed road to Aghdam, the new border line between the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides as Armenian separatists are handing over the district bordering Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a Russian-brokered peace deal to end weeks of fighting in the region. IMAGES
Russian President Putin and German Chancellor Merkel lay a wreath to remember the victims of WWII, amid tensions between the two countries over Ukraine. Mana Rabiee reports.
European officials, including Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and Charles Michel, president of the EU council among others, take a group picture with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Berlin process leaders' Summit in Tirana, Albania. On the agenda at the meeting are discussions around a greater convergence with the European Union and "supporting ecological and digital transition" in the region. IMAGES
European officials, including Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and Charles Michel, president of the EU council among others, are welcomed by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Berlin process leaders' Summit taking place in Tirana, Albania. IMAGES