After weeks of bloody clashes and a blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan on September 19 said it had launched an “anti-terrorist operation,” a major escalation in hostilities with Armenia as the breakaway region already teeters on the brink of a humanitarian crisis after being blockaded for more than eight months. The ...
Foreign Ministers of Russia and China agreed that the settlement in Ukraine is impossible without the participation of Moscow. Russia’s Sergey Lavrov and China’s Wang Yi noted the futility of attempts to settle the crisis in Ukraine without taking into account Russia’s interests and without its participation in this process, ...