VIGIL CONSILIUM
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Coverage · South Caucasus

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4 published markers carry this system value.

4 published markers 4 supply systems 2 operators

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Political / command: 4 published markers in Caucasus carry this system value. No system record has been written for it yet; everything on this page is derived from those markers and the records that name them.

Nodes

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Routes and operators

Supply systems running through it

  • Armenian external access — two borders open, two closedGeneral trade · 10 nodes · 6 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesA landlocked country whose shortest routes to the world have been shut for thirty years, and what that does to everything else.
  • The Middle Corridor — east–west trade transitGeneral trade · 8 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesThe overland route between China and Europe that avoids both Russia and Iran, and which works in the places where it has actually been built.
  • Caspian energy export — the westward pipeline systemFuel imports · 5 nodes · 3 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesThe reason this small region has the attention of capitals that could not otherwise place it: oil and gas going west without crossing Russia or Iran.
  • TRIPP — the proposed Syunik transit routeGeneral trade · 5 nodes · 4 documented disruptions · joined by its nodesFourteen months of instruments, one ratification, one season of surveys, and not a metre of road.

Organisations that run it

  • Azerbaijan RailwaysInfrastructure operator · Active · through a published facilityThe state railway that carries the Middle Corridor across Azerbaijan from the Caspian shore to the Georgian border and on the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars line, and that is building the Horadiz–Aghband line toward the Armenian frontier.
  • SOCARState enterprise · Active · through a published facilityAzerbaijan's state oil and gas company — a shareholder in every segment of the westward corridor, the operator of TANAP and, through its midstream arm, the technical operator of the South Caucasus gas pipeline.

Transmission chains through this system

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Events at its nodes

20 – 21 August 2026Pashinyan applies the Alma-Ata baseline to the enclaves, and Armenian politics reactsDec 2025 – Mar 2026Georgia's accession moves from frozen to penalised5 – 17 Feb 2026Baku sentences the former Karabakh leadershipMay – Dec 2024Georgia's EU accession freezesApr – May 2018Armenia's Velvet Revolution1999 – 2009Second Chechen War31 Aug 1996Khasavyurt AccordDec 1994 – Aug 1996First Chechen War13 – 20 Jan 1990Baku pogrom and "Black January"9 Apr 1989The Tbilisi massacre27 – 29 Feb 1988Sumgait pogrom23 Feb 1944Deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples

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