Russia and Its Neighbours: Mutual Responsibility and Co-Development

... Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020, which ultimately resulted in Azerbaijan restoring full control over Karabakh in the autumn of 2023, as well as the dramatic events in Kazakhstan in January 2022, showed that the development trajectory of the former Soviet republics rooted in the early phases of their sovereign statehood had exhausted itself. However, the process of change is not unidirectional. It is contradictory and was shaped both by internal factors specific to each particular country and by ...