Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have banned local restaurants from hosting large dinner parties and post-funeral gatherings, citing growing shortages of food resulting from a road blockade imposed by Azerbaijan.
Political allies of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toned down their rhetoric on Wednesday after Moscow angrily denied trying to force Armenia to join the “union state” of Russia and Belarus and open a corridor to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan exclave.
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the South Caucasus has been unable to find a model for regional cooperation or form regional organizations. The relative calm that followed the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, especially after the signing of the November 2020 cease-fire agreement, renewed hopes that this might change. Significant challenges to regional cooperation remain, however, and Russia’s war with Ukraine has only complicated matters further.