... have felt personally deceived and angry, thinking that pardoning many jailed activists on the eve of Washington visit bore no fruits. For years, there has been no targeted “naming and shaming” of parties derailing the peace talks, whether Armenia or Azerbaijan, while the mediators were trying to keep balance, that now quite ironically resulted in calculations that a military escalation would again not invite any sanction or punishment.
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... (Armenia has traditionally kept a wary eye on the post-Soviet dynamics of Russian-Turkish cooperation). It is not improbable that the Russian-Turkish crisis will affect Russia’s position in holding up the precarious balance in its relationship with Armenia and Azerbaijan regarding the Karabakh conflict. Moscow is unlikely to harbor any illusions about the sympathies of the Azerbaijani authorities and the public in relation to the crisis between Russia and Turkey.
The mounting Russian-Turkish crisis has had ...
... OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, on the pullout of heavy and light weapons from the actual line of contact, in a similar way to the Minsk II package of measures. When this is not the case, the armed confrontation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is bound to escalate.
References
Nichol J. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests. Congressional Research Service. Washington D.C. 2009. April 9. PP. 11 – 13.
... with the centre of former military, economic and political power, which is now embodied by the Russian Federation as the legal successor to the USSR. Of the 15 former republics of the Soviet Union, four have no diplomatic relations with one another (Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia and Georgia). Unregulated border disputes are the bane of practically all Central Asian states. Russia and Ukraine have not broken diplomatic relations formally, but relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb since ...
... prevail in Moscow. It is believed there that, despite the controversial external context and notwithstanding Yerevan's profound discontent with the situation in such a sensitive sphere as intensified military-technical cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan, Russian-Armenian relations in any case will overcome their tactical divisions. Apparently, Moscow assumes that given the geographical, political, military, strategic and economic context, Yerevan actually has no choice but to accept the current parameters of ...
... irrelevant to the new set of conditions that followed the events of August 2008
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In the politico-geographical introduction to his new report, Jos Boonstra identifies the South Caucasus as a region that “comprises the former Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.” From a legal point of view, he is absolutely right. With the exception of Russia and several countries of Latin America and Oceania, the international community recognizes Georgia within the borders of the Georgian Soviet ...
... Nagorno-Karabakh settlement. Western diplomats and experts more often criticize Russia for “freezing” rather than seeking to solve this long-festering conflict
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. We should bear in mind, however, that however passive Russia may be, neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia, which are directly involved in the ethno-political confrontation, have demonstrated any inclination to make compromises or concessions. Given this approach, “freezing” the conflict is not the worst of options, although ultimately ...
The post-Soviet South Caucasus countries have not yet accumulated sufficient experience in conducting their own “festive and commemorative” policies. Before they became independent countries as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia shared symbols and festive dates with all the other republics (the majority of these dates were associated with the establishment of the Soviet power there). The experience of national statehood after the disintegration of the Russian ...
... of contact plays into the hands of Azerbaijan, which places a stake on wearing down Armenia through a kind of psychological warfare.
Why is the escalation of the conflict observed not only over Nagorno-Karabakh, but also in the northern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border (Tavush province)? Most likely, Baku is trying to test the strength of Armenia’s positions, its self-confidence and the confidence in its allies (namely Russia). According to most experts, in exchange for Yerevan’s decision ...
... Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the International Trends journal
Reflections in the footsteps of Victoria Nuland’s Transcaucasia tour
For several days now, the Russian media has been abuzz over what one journalist dubbed the “explosive” tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia taken by Victoria Nuland, whom it has referred to as assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, but who is actually the assistant to the Under Secretary of State. Interest in Nuland is being fueled by a distorted assessment of her alleged role ...
