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Baku promised to prosecute if the videos are determined to be authentic. But past experience suggests the prosecutions won’t go far.

As Baku steps up its threats, is Yerevan willing to make heavy concessions under the barrel of a gun?

Immediately following the heavy fighting, pro-government media promoted an irredentist Azerbaijani project on Armenian territory. Then, just as quickly, they disavowed it.

Several activists and politicians have been branded “traitors” on government-linked social media after they expressed their opposition to Azerbaijan’s recent attacks against Armenia.

Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking American official ever to visit Armenia, and it came at a critical time during the country’s conflict with Azerbaijan.

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.

One was arrested, and both the Karabakh de facto leadership and the opposition in Armenia have come to his defense.

Ruben Vardanyan has said his move is a patriotic gesture and he has dropped hints about entering politics. But others wonder if international sanctions against Russia may be motivating him, too.

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.

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