War comes home: Russia opened a new destructive phase, and Ukraine is responding with strikes deep inside Russian territory
Post-Soviet region
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Relations between Armenia and Russia need to be “put on a healthier footing,” Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said as disagreements between the two countries intensify over issues ranging from railway management to Yerevan’s foreign-policy...
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The CIA director’s proposal for a trilateral meeting has put diplomacy back on the agenda, but Moscow and Kyiv still fundamentally disagree over when negotiations should begin and how the war might end. There was something reminiscent of cold war...
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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...
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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...
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