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Azerbaijan, which had been pressing hard for a resolution, has eased off following the Turkish elections and their establishment of a border post in Karabakh.

Until now there have been nearly no arms sales from Western countries to Azerbaijan or its rival, Armenia.

The question of the exclaves is one of the thorniest facing Armenia and Azerbaijan as they work to delineate their border.

The route has gained new importance as Russia seeks to replace its former trade routes that have been cut off by Western sanctions.

Yerevan and Baku have fundamental disagreements about how the rights and security of Karabakh’s Armenian population should be guaranteed. Observers are pessimistic that they can be bridged.

Baku has presented the border crossing as a demonstration of how Karabakh Armenians can live peacefully under Azerbaijani rule. But no one is using it.

The episode appears to be a setback for the rapprochment process between the two countries that had been advancing, if unevenly.

Armenians have appealed to Russia, which is supposed to provide security on the road, as Baku tightens the noose around the territory's population.

The emerging format connects Armenia with two of the countries that have risen in importance for Yerevan as it seeks new sources of security.

While American officials have sought to emphasize the visa bans’ apolitical nature, that’s not how the announcement has been received in Tbilisi.

Azerbaijan is seeking to equate the rights of the Azerbaijanis who were displaced from Armenia to those of Karabakh Armenians. Yerevan isn't having it.

Armenians had been using the road to bypass a blockade on the main road, the Lachin Corridor. The move drew a rare rebuke from the Russian peacekeepers.

The U.S. and Russia have both made high-level contact with Armenian and Azerbaijani officials as the rhetoric from Baku is getting increasingly bellicose.

It was unclear on whose behalf the former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was visiting, and what it portended for Armenia’s geopolitical orientation.

It’s been a year since the two countries signed what seemed like a landmark cooperation agreement. But their regular conflicts have not abated.

The Russian-Armenian billionaire’s tenure in Karabakh politics was brief and tumultuous, and there are plenty of people who wanted him out.

Armenians declared victory in the case, but Azerbaijan already denies that it is blockading the road to Karabakh and it's not clear how the ruling will be enforced.

Baku appears to be retreating from the grand vision of a corridor connecting the Turkic world for the sake of a more local strategic goal: cementing control over Karabakh.

The opening was a one-time occurrence, Armenian officials said, and the overall impact on the Armenia-Turkey normalization process remains unclear.

Armenia’s aid efforts to Turkey, in particular, were closely scrutinized.

As the Georgian government entertains the idea of allowing Russia to resume direct flights, Washington and Brussels have issued warnings about complying with international sanctions.

Officials in Moscow and their allies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia all canceled meetings with international diplomats brokering the discussions, casting the future of the talks into question.

There is a widespread belief in Baku that the attack may have been connected to Azerbaijan’s growing relationship with Israel.

A statement by the Foreign Ministry alluded to a potential confrontation with Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh and Russian border guards in Armenia.

Kyiv has long taken a pro-Azerbaijan position vis-a-vis the conflict with Armenia. Now officials say that Armenia and Russia are using the blockade to try to steal attention from Ukraine.