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ANDREW ANGLIN  https://www.rt.com/russia/583312-nagorno-karabakh-yerevan-violence/video/650bf61985f540331108c770 I haven’t written much about the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, because I assume people don’t really care very much, and also because I find the whole situation personally frustrating. For those who don’t know: this is a disputed territory in the former USSR (exactly like Eastern Ukraine), where a territory that is majority Armenian (Christian) ended up on the Azerbaijani (Moslem) side of the border. They declared themselves semi-autonomous in the 1990s after a war, and for more than a decade, both Armenia and Azerbaijan accepted the status quo. The status quo was rattled in 2016 and then more serious in 2020 when a real war broke out. This was part and parcel of t...

The Pashinyan circle – very close to the Soros crowd – had in fact abandoned Nagorno-Karabakh for at least the past three years. PEPE ESCOBAR  It’s fire in Transcaucasia. Literally. All over again. Azerbaijan went all out against Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh by bombing the regional capital Stepanakert with Israeli surface-to-surface LORA missiles and Israeli Harop kamikaze drones. The Tor air defense system of the Armenian Armed Forces near the Khankendi-Khojaly road was destroyed by Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones, and all mobile communications were completely cut off in Nagorno-Karabakh. This sort of light blitz was compounded with an info war/ soft power offensive: an avalanche of videos nearly in real time extolling the military exploits coupled with a humanitarian subt...

Sputnik  Azerbaijan and representatives of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh have agreed on a complete cessation of hostilities through the mediation of Russian peacekeepers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Through the mediation of the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent, an agreement was reached between the Azerbaijani side and representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh on a complete cessation of hostilities. The implementation of these agreements will be carried out in coordination with the command of the Russian peacekeeping contingent,” the ministry said in a statement. The Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh is in contact with both Yerevan and Baku, discussing the prevention of bloodshed in the region, the Russian Defense ...

President Ilham Aliyev sees no “serious obstacles” to reaching an agreement with Yerevan FILE PHOTO: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ©  Global Look Press / IMAGO Azerbaijan and Armenia may sign a peace agreement in the near future, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told local media on Sunday, without revealing the exact timetable of a potential deal. Baku sees no major obstacles to a deal after Yerevan recognized the long-disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh as being part of Azerbaijan, he added. “Now that Armenia has recognized our territorial integrity, any serious obstacles to the peace treaty have de-facto vanished,” Aliyev said on Sunday. The president also said he was “sure” that a deal “could be signed in the near future” if t...