Russia is learning to mind its limitations, to repel residual nostalgia and to think ... ... personalities, staying focused on its own interests
Simultaneous crises in Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Kyrgyzstan have demonstrated Russia’s maturing approach to its... ... sovereignty to supranational bodies that would be dominated by Russia. This dual refusal has put an end to the outsize ambitions of some, and unrealistic expectations of...
The EU can’t fix this, and with the United States disinterested, the task of creating long-lasting peace in the region falls upon Russia
On the morning of September 27, 2020, along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact, the armed forces of Azerbaijan launched an attack on the Republic of Artsakh. The clashes, and with them military and civilian victims on both sides, are ongoing at the time of writing. Yet another escalation of the unresolved ...
Russian foreign policy is a kind of a reactive foreign policy which is trying to respond to challenges to the Russian national ... ... challenges of climate change and environmental problems, according to Kortunov.
The expert also touched upon the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
He noted that outside forces cannot really play a decisive role in settling this conflict.
The expert ...
... “total dependence” on the Russian military and government authorities, “dragging” the country into the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), “Russian support for Armenian authoritarianism”, Moscow’s reluctance to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the need to put an end to isolation, which is allegedly good for Russia, and so on. The United States in the most active of the external players in Armenia. Thus, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the key vehicle of American “soft power” in the world, had an official budget of $23 million in 2014. In 2015, it was increased to $27 million
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Alexander Skakov:
Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: March ...