Yerevan demands new railway terms from Moscow — Mirzoyan

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...

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...