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The president of Azerbaijan congratulated his Turkish counterpart without waiting for the second round of elections. Other officials are already celebrating, too.

Media partisanship in Baku won’t do much to sway Turkish vote.

Analysts say that, while an Erdogan defeat would be a preferable outcome for Armenia, a change of power in Turkey would not necessarily be a game changer.

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

The signs of solidarity and resilience shown by Ukrainians were evident in the decade leading up to the war, but the Kremlin ignored the evidence.

Pro-government media in Azerbaijan are glorifying the president of Turkey ahead of that country's May election, though it's not clear what they hope to achieve.

Ever since the start to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anything with the slightest whiff of separatism in Kazakhstan has elicited a harsh crackdown. Except this time.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

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Yet the final decision will depend on the 27 member states and their individual considerations.

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

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

Tbilisi says the war will not derail plans to buy subway cars from Russia with European money.