From initialling to peace: what is holding up the final Armenia–Azerbaijan agreement?

Russia’s threat to halt discounted gas supplies to Armenia has transformed Yerevan’s energy dependence on Moscow from an economic problem into a matter of national security. The Russian side has warned that it could suspend or unilaterally terminate...

Eighteen years after the 2008 war, Moscow and Tbilisi have moved closer in their assessment of Mikheil Saakashvili’s role, but remain as far apart as ever on the central question — whether Abkhazia and South Ossetia belong to Georgia The eighteenth...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Saturday, marking the first publicly announced telephone conversation between the two countries’ leaders in many years and offering another sign that Baku and...

Washington and Yerevan promise to turn 42 kilometres of abandoned railway into a new link between Asia and Europe. But behind the talk of peace and prosperity remain questions about sovereignty, the political connections of investors and the price...