Fearing the worst

Article Abstract:

Nagorny Karabakh territory was the main reason for a bitter dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Since 1994, the dispute is quiet but unresolved, halted by a ceasefire agreement that followed a de facto Armenian victory on the ground and the deaths of some twenty-five thousand people, but its influence is continuing to ruin the entire region between the Caspian and Black Sea.

Azerbaijan, Armenia, International aspects, Military aspects, Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan

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Changing the guard

Article Abstract:

Eduard Shevardnadze was a waning but a wily political operator who as Soviet Union's foreign minister under President Mikhail Gorbachev played a key role in the end of the Cold War. For thirty years he was the sun in the solar system of Georgian politics.

Public affairs, Georgia, Political activity, Political aspects, Shevardnadze, Eduard

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