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RIAC Director General Ivan Timofeev and AIR Center Chairman Farid Shafiyev stressed that the RAEC format and its annual meetings demonstrate the relevance and timeliness of this project, all the more so in the period of post-conflict development in the South Caucasus. They also emphasized the importance of direct contacts between experts from Russia and Azerbaijan with a view to strengthening bilateral relations and sharpening the understanding of approaches to issues on each other’s global and regional ...
On the intertwined interests of regional and external powers in South Caucasus
Caucasus: turbulence in the shadow of Ukraine
These days, the Caucasus has been pushed to the margins of the international agenda and the media narrative by developments in and around Ukraine. However, the importance of geopolitical transformations ...
... diplomatic answer to violent conflicts that emerged in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Liberal Project and Its Relevance for Armenia
Nagorno-Karabakh is the latest example, as most of the ethnic quarrels in the South Caucasus are still ongoing since 1991, with Abkhazia and South Ossetia remaining
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