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Days before Azerbaijan launched an assault against Armenia, Armenians began using a new, Azerbaijan-constructed road to travel between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.

Enthusiasm for this round of fighting is less than in 2020, with some prominent figures even openly opposing the new escalation.

In the wake of Azerbaijan’s offensive, Armenia’s leader signaled that he would be willing to cede control of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.

Tension between the two sides has been exacerbated by continuing disagreement of the nature of a road that would connect the two parts of Azerbaijan through Armenian territory.

The attacks come as Russia, Armenia’s security guarantor, has been getting routed in Ukraine.

The ruling party already holds complete control in the country. Now a new law would make it almost impossible for a new party to be formed.

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Baku is venturing ever closer to openly promoting secession for Iran’s large ethnic Azerbaijani minority.

The landmark deal helps the two countries gain distance from Russia.

The U.S. embassy’s decision not to visit Shusha followed soon after its reappointment of a representative to the Minsk Group, a body Baku has declared “dead.”

But just as Azerbaijani troops were entering the territory, however, it emerged that the new road that was the purported reason for the handover would not be ready for another week.

A project to archive one of the Azerbaijani capital's oldest neighborhoods interrupts efforts to wipe its memory away.

Some are worried about physical security, others about whether their agricultural produce can compete with Turkish imports.

An energy watcher recalls how Europe’s fixation with market powers drove it into the arms of a Russian monopolist.

The current process, unlike previous efforts, is a largely top-down one. What can we do to change that?

In 2020, Azerbaijan won back many of the water resources it had lost to Armenians in the 1990s. But the biggest source still eludes it, and farmers are still struggling.

A series of ceasefire violations has led to an unprecedented level of criticism, even as the Armenians of Karabakh still see the peacekeepers as their main guarantor of security.

The order to leave within 20 days was a sharp U-turn from earlier messages saying that there was still a year and a half to find a solution.

The group said it was avenging an Azerbaijani woman who was "persecuted" by the authorities for writing a Shiite slogan on the wall of her home.

It was the latest in a string of arrests of people accused of smuggling in the territories Azerbaijan recaptured from Armenia in the 2020 war.

The escalation came as Azerbaijan has been trying to push Armenia to speed up the construction of a new road connecting Armenia to Karabakh.

Tashkent sees the link as part of a transcontinental route bypassing Russia.

Baku has been reforming its armed forces with a new education system, new weaponry, and a big increase in special forces units. And it is all being modeled after Turkey’s military.

A series of personnel appointments connected to the powerful Pashayev family have raised questions about the bank’s independence.

Azerbaijan has increased pressure in recent weeks for Armenia to complete the pullout.