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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in an exclusive interview with Mir Interstate Television and Radio Company on May 1, 2020, that is, a little over a year after he had assumed the presidency of his country, recounted – not without some pride at the results achieved – how Kazakhstan was managing to keep …

Because Moscow is focused on its war in Ukraine, the European Union has hosted two meetings with the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan simultaneously to press for an agreement on border delimitation between the two and to exclude Russia from the talks, Russian experts say. But without Moscow which has …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus has been unable to find a model for regional cooperation or form regional organizations. As I have noted elsewhere, “Over the past three decades, various initiatives for regional cooperation have been proposed, including the ‘Peaceful Caucasus Initiative’ (Eduard Shevardnadze), ‘Stability …

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus has been unable to find a model for regional cooperation or form regional organizations. As I have noted elsewhere, “Over the past three decades, various initiatives for regional cooperation have been proposed, including the ‘Peaceful Caucasus Initiative’ (Eduard Shevardnadze), ‘Stability …

Armenia’s government has said it will no longer share with the United States samples of biological pathogens and data on disease outbreaks, amid a Russian campaign raising suspicions of American biological laboratories across the post-Soviet space. On June 2, the government announced that it was amending a 2010 agreement between …

The two countries will work to develop power from wind, solar and green hydrogen sources. An Emirati renewable energy firm signed two cooperation agreements with Azerbaijan yesterday. In the first agreement, Masdar and Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Energy pledged to develop onshore wind projects and solar photovoltaic projects each with a …

U.S.-funded biological laboratories are located in Armenia, Kazakhstan and Central Asian countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with RT Arabic on Thursday, May 26. Lavrov said Moscow is discussing the matter with its neighbors both on a bilateral basis and within the CSTO, TASS says. “There are …

What Russia’s War Means for Armenia and Azerbaijan As the ripples of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pulse outward, they have left one region especially volatile: the South Caucasus. The Ukrainian conflict has paradoxically raised the likelihood of both further fighting and a negotiated peace in this area between the Caspian …

Several important developments have taken place recently in Azerbaijan-Armenia relations. The first was a meeting on Dec. 14 of last year between President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia, facilitated by European Council President Charles Michel. This was the very first meeting in three decades …

GEORGIA Breakaway territory South Ossetia’s de facto president Anatoly Bibilov announced last Friday a referendum scheduled for 17 July on whether the region — which Moscow recognised as an independent state in 2008 — should accede to the Russian Federation. Bibilov was defeated in second-round elections earlier this month by …