A Russian-brokered deal has silenced the guns in Nagorno-Karabakh, the region disputed for decades by Armenia and Azerbaijan. It falls short, however, of a clear, sustainable peace. The parties and foreign stakeholders should work to ensure that the new arrangements have benefits for all concerned.

Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement to end six weeks of heavy fighting that killed thousands of soldiers and hundreds of civilians on both sides. Crisis Group expert Olga Oliker says while it ended the bloody fighting, the deal is not a comprehensive peace treaty. Azerbaijan, which sees …

What is the robbing of the bank compared to the founding of a bank”…BERTOLT BRECHT November 2020 witnessed America affirming that it isn’t just its name that embodies unity but that it breathes the democratic ‘unity’ of the age. So far as we are told, it was a victory of …