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Armenia Says Outline Of Peace Deal Agreed With Azerbaijan

Over the past week Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and other Armenian officials have been hinting that a peace deal with Azerbaijan could be imminent. They say the sides have reached agreement on three core principles of a deal while “details” remain to be settled. Pashinyan told parliament on October 30 …

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EU In Search Of The Best Option For Georgia – Analysis

The Georgian establishment may be said to anxiously look forward to the decision by the European Union (EU) on whether to grant candidate status to Georgia. However, the decision of the EU is awaited not only in Georgia. The process is most likely being proactively watched by Russia, which is …

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The Past And Future Of Karabakh And South Caucasus Security – Analysis

The Karabakh conflict and the relationship between Armenia and Azerbaijan are often clouded by misinformation. To address this, it is crucial to highlight some historical facts. Despite claims to the contrary, ethnic Armenians began settling in Karabakh following Russia’s decisive triumph over the Persian Empire in the Russo-Persian Wars of …

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How Kazakhstan Helps Russia Bypass Western Sanctions

The parallel imports that pass through Kazakhstan to Russia represent a complex equation with variables ranging from the customs union to corruption. During a recent visit to Germany, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made several conflicting statements. Tokayev stated that, on the one hand, Kazakhstan will pursue comprehensive cooperation with …

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Azerbaijan, Turkey launch joint military exercise as Fidan meets Armenia FM

The joint military exercise coincided with a five-country summit in Tehran between Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran and Russia. Azerbaijan and Turkey on Monday launched a joint military exercise, including in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with his Armenian counterpart on the sidelines of a five-country …

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Fears Linger In Armenia Of Azerbaijani Invasion

Armenia’s ambassador to the European Union, Tigran Balayan, said in an interview published on October 6 that Azerbaijan was actively preparing an invasion within weeks. But on October 10 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Armenian Public TV that that risk was “extremely low,” and that there was no military buildup …

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WaPo’s Fearmongering About A War Over The Zangezur Corridor Aims To Manipulate Armenians

The Washington Post produced an information warfare product, not a piece of journalism like its article is inaccurately presented to the masses as being. The Washington Post (WaPo) just published a piece alleging that “After Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan eyes a strategic strip of Armenia”, which fearmongers that an East-West trans-Armenian connectivity …

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How Nagorno-Karabakh’s fall shifted the balance of power in the Caucasus

By the time the last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh arrived in Goris, an Armenian city on the border with Azerbaijan, the scale of the tragedy had become clear. The 19 September lightning offensive by Azerbaijan ended thirty years of self-rule in the breakaway region, located within its borders …

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How Nagorno-Karabakh’s fall shifted the balance of power in the Caucasus

By the time the last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh arrived in Goris, an Armenian city on the border with Azerbaijan, the scale of the tragedy had become clear. The 19 September lightning offensive by Azerbaijan ended thirty years of self-rule in the breakaway region, located within its borders …

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The Latest Israeli-Hamas War Discredits Claims That Azerbaijan Ethnically Cleansed Armenians

Azerbaijan neither sent death squads into Karabakh to slaughter Armenians like Hamas sent into Israel to slaughter Jews nor did it bomb Karabakh into oblivion like Israel is doing to Gaza. With this in mind, no honest Israeli or Hamas supporter can accuse Azerbaijan of the same crimes as their …

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