Hrazdan

So just a month ago, this company called Firebird, which is a U.S. company and startup, which is basically led by Armenian diaspora and also Armenian investors.

They built this AI factory over the past year and it just opened last month in the town of Hrazdan, which is in the north a bit, which used to be actually an industrial town during the Soviet Union.

And it's very interesting because the way that this AI factory, as it's being called, is being framed is as you know, a kind of return to, oh, wow, look, Hira's done.

This town is going back to like, you know, being an industrial town, which is very strange to call it that because it's not actually going to be the case.

This is something that has become a catchphrase the last several years.

Um, so in FIMI news, a report by Recorded Future, a US-based cybersecurity and threat intelligence company, says a Russian-linked influence network has been targeting the Firebird AI data center, uh, that was just recently opened in Hrazdan.

The joint US-Armenian project has become a symbol of Armenia's westward geopolitical pivot, making it a target in a broader campaign to undermine that realignment.

The group documented three impersonation campaigns between late June and mid-July.