... “coarse street slang” to talk about Putin and Medvedev to later argue that the latter was not “a recognised leader” among his subordinates. To contextualise, 2010 saw the peak of then President Medvedev’s personal efforts to find breakthrough on Nagorno Karabakh talks, which President Aliyev
flushed
in Kazan in June 2011.
Of course, the Azerbaijani leadership has long been running on the basis that the United States would rather organize color revolution on Azeri soil because they have been all under Armenian lobby. In an off-the-record sit-in with Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov ...
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Mikael Zolyan:
The Iskanders in Armenia: Restoration
of a Balance or a New Round of
the Arms Race?
The roots
The present escalation is neither unprecedented, nor has been unpredictable.
Steady escalation both along the Line of Contact between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh as well as the international border with Armenia could have been observed since 2010, at the peak of then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s peacemaking efforts — all vanished in Kazan Summit on June 24, 2011. Growth in military ...
... Kazimirov noted at the start of the article that much has been said about the terms and complexities of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The former Ambassador speaks about the conflict as unusual in terms of its stakeholders, which are three, not two (Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan).
Referring to the military onslaught of Azerbaijan against Nagorno Karabalh on April 2, Kazimirov mentions that it was the largest in-scale and most bloodiest military operation since the establishment of the ceasefire regime 22 years ago....