COVID-19 Implications for Azerbaijan: Momentum Immobilized by a Perfect Storm

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Global events related to the COVID-19 pandemic have affected all countries in Central Eurasia, with many experiencing signs of recession in late 2020. The forced quarantine regimes…

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Traditional Islam in Azerbaijan: Countering Fundamentalism and Consolidating Authoritarianism

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The Azerbaijani authoritarian regime tends to view any independent group as a threat that needs to be marginalized, if not suppressed. This works for secular civil…

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Nagorno-Karabakh between Turkey’s Scylla and Russia’s Charybdis

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On November 10, a Russian-enforced ceasefire finally put an end to forty-five days of intense fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave that…

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Iskandaryan: If Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh fail, this will affect the perception of Russia in the country

(TASS) Joe Biden announced his victory in the 2020 US presidential election. And although Donald Trump has not yet admitted his defeat and threatens to challenge the results of the vote…

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Russian-Sponsored Security Organizations and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Threat or Misconception?

November 2, 2020

(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) While Azerbaijani government officials and observers have alleged a strategy by Armenia to involve Russian-sponsored security organizations in recent escalations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, these claims are…

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Aktürk: Russia has considerable soft power within EU member states through its connections with far-right, anti-immigrant, and Islamophobic groups

(TRT World) Russia and Turkey face each other on opposing sides over several fronts across Eurasia, from Libya to Syria, and now Azerbaijan, too. Experts say Moscow is hitting Syria’s Idlib…

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Radnitz: It’s hard for Azerbaijan to get a face-saving compromise when they say they won’t stop short of recovering all occupied territories

(Live Science) Since the end of September, hundreds of soldiers and civilians are thought to have been killed in a rapidly developing conflict between the rival Caucasus nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. …

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Iskandaryan: The blitzkrieg did not work, the situation is dragging on, the Azerbaijani army continues to grind in this meat grinder

(ArmInfo) Just a couple of days ago, literally, I would say that I do not see any indicators that show the possibility of a suspension of hostilities, however, now the situation has changed.…

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No peacemakers for the new/old Caucasian war: Understanding the Armenia-Azerbaijan clash

(Brookings) full-blown war erupted in the South Caucasus last Sunday, September 27, and as the two belligerents — Armenia and Azerbaijan — mobilize their forces under martial law, no international authority…

Divide and Co-Opt: Government-Opposition Relations in Azerbaijan in the Wake of COVID-19

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Around the time of the February 2020 snap parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, the government-opposition relationship took a surprising turn. In the run-up to the election, the…

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