If it is definitively determined that the Moscow atrocity was carried out by ISKP, it would be consistent with the rapid increase in the group's external operations activities as of late.
In the days since the mass killing at the Crocus City concert hall near Moscow, blameless Tajik migrants across Russia have been subjected to threats, verbal abuse and increased harassment from law enforcement.
Vagif Khachatryan, a 68-year-old veteran of the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s, pleaded not guilty but was convicted of crimes including "genocide."
Armenia doesn't trust Azerbaijan's recent actions and rhetoric indicating that it's deprioritizing its ambition for a corridor through Armenia to its exclave Nakhchivan.
The decision comes amid the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and after the arrest by Azerbaijan of one of the region's most prominent former officials.
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The Armenian prime minister said that, while Armenia was prepared to accommodate those leaving Karabakh, they would not be under direct threat if they stayed put, under Azerbaijani rule.