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Russia’s New Crises on the Periphery Editor’s Note: Despite its success in meddling in U.S. elections and European politics, Russia faces many problems closer to home. In particular, it has tried to maintain influence in many former Soviet republics, but 2020 proved a difficult year for Moscow. MIT’s Carol Saivetz examines Russia’s problems and explains how Russia has tried to manage them. Daniel Byman *** Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Russia has sought to maintain its sway in the post-Soviet space despite numerous upheavals. It has worked to solidify bilat...

URL copied to clipboard “Everyone here volunteered during the war. Even men in their sixties,” said Vardan Hayrapetyan, sitting in the spartan office of his hotel in southern Armenia, near the Iranian border. The hotel mostly caters to Iranian truck drivers who shuttle gas and other goods along the main road through Syunik province, a relatively narrow strip of land that is bordered by Azerbaijani territory on two sides, east and west. “Most of the men went to defend the border with Nakhichevan and the south of Karabakh,” Vardan added. “That’s where the battles were hardest.�...

Moscow Denies Pashinian’s Claims On Karabakh Peace Plan Հունվար 14, 2021 Կիսվել Տարածել Տպել Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has misrepresented proposals to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh jointly made by Russia, the United States and France, according to a senior Russian diplomat. Igor Popov, the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, has specifically denied Pashinian’s claims that the three mediating powers pressured the Armenian side to give seven districts around Karabakh back to Azerbaijan and offered it nothing in return. Pashinian repeatedly criticized their ...

Russian OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Igor Popov YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has misrepresented proposals to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh jointly made by Russia, the United States and France, according to a senior Russian diplomat. Igor Popov, the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, has specifically denied Pashinyan’s claims that the three mediating powers pressured the Armenian side to give seven districts around Karabakh back to Azerbaijan and offered it nothing in return. Pashinyan repeatedly criticized their peace proposals during and after the recent war w...

13 Jan in 8:00 The Jamestown Foundation It is worth recalling that 2019 was a year marked by domestic politics, reforms and broad caution about the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Experts and observers on all sides avoided rushing to quick judgements about whether the so-called Velvet Revolution that overtook Armenia in 2018 would eventually lead to a peaceful resolution in Karabakh (see EDM, January 27, 2020). But those trends quickly started to reverse at the start of last year, The Jamestown Foundation reports in its article  While patiently waiting for the domestic dynamics...