Armenia and the EU signed a Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) during the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels.

According to preliminary results, the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan held on 15 October, was won by the former prime minister, Sooronbay Jeenbekov.

In the first days of September, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov spoke in defence of the persecuted Muslim Rohingya community in Myanmar several times.

On the night of 29 May, the Azeri opposition journalist Efgan Muhtarli went missing in Tbilisi. 

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had decided that control of the Uzbek internal troops would be placed in the hands of the Uzbek Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The parliamentary election on 2 April has led to the consolidation of Armenia’s political scene.

On 28 March, the European Union’s decision to abolish short-term visas for Georgian citizens came into force.

On 21 February, Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, nominated his wife, Mehriban Aliyeva, for the newly created position of first vice-president. 

The United National Movement, Georgia’s largest opposition party which governed the country during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili underwent a split on 12 January.

24 grudnia prezydent Kirgistanu Ałmazbek Atambajew złożył wizytę w Uzbekistanie.