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News Winter’s Approach Raises Stakes in European Energy Crisis

Countries prepare for worst-case scenario involving blackouts and energy rationing

  • October 17, 2022
News Ukraine war: Russia dive-bombs Kyiv with 'kamikaze' drones

Russia has hit Ukraine with a wave of attacks, dive-bombing the capital, Kyiv, with what appear to be Iranian-made "kamikaze" drones.

  • October 17, 2022
News Crimea bridge: Russia 'to repair blast damage by July 2023'

Russia's government has ordered contractors to finish repairs to a key bridge linking annexed Crimea to Russia by July 2023.

  • October 14, 2022
News General Sergei Surovikin: Who is Putin's hard-line new commander in Ukraine?

General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed General Armageddon, is President Vladimir Putin's new tactic in the war against Ukraine.

  • October 14, 2022
News Gas taps can be still turned on to EU, says Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin has said the gas taps can be still turned on for Russian supplies to the EU, despite sharp political disagreements.

  • October 12, 2022
News What is Vladimir Putin thinking and planning?

It's the question we've been asking for months now, even before Russia invaded Ukraine.

  • October 12, 2022
News Crimea bridge attack arrests as market in Donetsk region attacked

Russia says it has detained eight people in connection with Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.

  • October 12, 2022
Publications Armenia and Azerbaijan Prepare to Make Peace

Ahmad ALILI Benyamin POGHOSYAN By Ahmad ALILI, Director, Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre, Baku
Benyamin POGHOSYAN, PhD, Chairman, Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies, Yerevan

On 31 August 2022, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, meeting in Brussels under the auspices of European Council president Charles Michel, agreed to authorise their foreign ministers to start immediate negotiations on a peace treaty. Instead, in less than two weeks, the two sides found themselves negotiating yet another ceasefire.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are slowly emerging from a long period of conflict. Over three and a half decades, tens of thousands died in fighting; hundreds of thousands of people were displaced; tens of thousands of landmines and other unexploded ordnance contaminated huge tracts of territory, and war and enmity became the standard narrative with both Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The 1st Karabakh War in the early 1990s resulted in massive loss of territory by Azerbaijan; the 2nd Karabakh War in autumn 2020 changed the reality on the ground for the second time, nearly, but not completely, restoring the status quo ante. READ MORE

  • October 12, 2022
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