Moscow and Baku Close the “Pause”: What Jeyhun Bayramov’s Visit to Russia Revealed

Nikol Pashinyan’s government has formalised Yerevan’s foreign-policy shift by ceasing to call Moscow a strategic partner. Yet Russia’s military base, cheap gas, bilateral trade and Armenia’s membership of the Eurasian Economic Union mean that...

In the official telling, this is called “diversification.” Yet the near-halving of imports reflects more than a market choice: the flow of gold fell to zero, sanctions exerted indirect pressure, and a political rupture took shape that Baku is...

Four years of war have brought neither Moscow nor Kyiv closer to achieving their original aims. But they have turned the conflict in Ukraine into a dangerous test of relations between Russia and the United States — a confrontation that may end not...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s unannounced visit to the Russian capital has become the most visible episode in months of covert diplomacy. Yet Washington’s attempts to determine Moscow’s terms have not developed into a genuine peace process — and...