Hard Times for Multivectorism in Post-Soviet Space: Azerbaijan between Russia and the West

... 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 ... ... games to get higher bid in the market. Whether or not Azerbaijan will follow the Moldovan suit and file for observer status in EAEU — remains to be seen. But will the Baku’s further “flexibility” be tolerated in Moscow, given that oil reserves are ...