More fatalities in Karabakh conflict
Commonspace.eu with agencies The Karabakh conflict continues to claim lives. At least three Armenian soldiers were reported killed since Friday, with the Armenian Defence Ministry [more >>>]
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What Is the EU’s Game in the Caucasus Separatist Territories?
By PAUL RIMPLE* eurasianet.org The European Union is making a push to raise its profile in two trouble spots in the South Caucasus, Abkhazia and [more >>>]
Moscow not yet ready to tie the knot with South Ossetia despite love-affair
By JOSEPH ALEXANDER SMITH* commonspace.eu Calls by the South Ossetian leadership for total integration with Russia have so far been snubbed by Moscow, but a [more >>>]
Abkhazia and the west: Rehabilitating engagement without recognition
By THOMAS FREAR (Researcher, ELN) European Leadership Network Abkhazia, the unrecognised statelet on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, rarely features in international publications [more >>>]
“Time is on nobody’s side,” Azeri, Armenian analysts discussed Karabakh in Washington
By ALAKBAR RAUFOGLU contact.az WASHINGTON – A group of Azerbaijani and Armenian civil society actors and representatives of the US, European think-tanks gathered in Washington, [more >>>]
A Do-It-Yourself International Humanitarian Mediation in Nagorno-Karabakh
By JON INARRITU (Basque Member of the Spanish Parliament), URKO AIARTZA (Basque Member of the Spanish Senate) New Eastern Europe A fatal ceasefire violation in [more >>>]
Minsk Group co-Chair Ministers mark a year of setbacks with Basel Statement
commonspace.eu Senior Ministers from the three countries that Chair the OSCE Minsk Process – France, Russia and the United States – have issued a statement [more >>>]
Baku blacklists Ukrainian journalists for “distorting reality about Karabakh conflict”
Public Radio of Armenia The Azerbaijani Embassy in Ukraine has expressed protest to this country’s Foreign Ministry for screening a film about Nagorno Karabakh on [more >>>]
Azeris to Boost Defense Spending Amid Risk of Armenia War
By ZULFUGAR AGAYEV Bloomberg Azerbaijan, the third-largest oil producer in the former Soviet Union, will look past falling crude prices and increase military spending by [more >>>]
The two sides of the Karabakh coin
By DENNIS SAMMUT* Commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut reflects on two events that occurred last week that highlighted the opposite ends of the situation around the Nagorno-Karabakh [more >>>]