Karabakh
Armenia and Karabakh encouraged by un court ruling on Kosovo
July 30, 2010By Emil Danielyan Authorities in Armenia and Karabakh have reacted very positively to the July 22 decision by the highest UN court to uphold the legality of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia. They say it strengthens the Armenian...
OSCE Chairperson voices concern over incident in Nagorno-Karabakh
June 22, 2010The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's State Secretary and Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev, expressed serious concern today over a fatal incident that took place during the night of 18 to 19 June at the Line of Contact in the Nagorno-Karabakh...
Despite its rhetoric, Tehran playing ‘a pragmatic game’ in South Caucasus
April 30, 2010By Paul Goble Despite often heated and even extremist rhetoric and the expectations of others as a result that Tehran will follow its religious impulses, the Iranian government has “more than once shown its ability to conduct a pragmatic game&rdquo...
How Gorbachev contributed to the ‘Karabakhization’ of Azerbaijani politics
January 19, 2010By Paul Goble Twenty years ago this week, Mikhail Gorbachev sent troops into Azerbaijan to crush the popular front there, but what the Soviet president achieved by his actions was the further radicalization of Azerbaijan and the “Karabakhization...
Russian Military Planners Thinking About a Post-CIS Eurasia
October 21, 2009By Paul Goble In the clearest indication yet that senior officials in Moscow are worried about what will happen if, as seems likely, the Commonwealth of Independent States dissolves, an article in the journal of the Russian military-industrial...