Russia
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The last few days have seen momentous events in the South Caucasus that few in the West, outside those in power who know, can understand. The last vestiges of the 30 year Armenian occupation of Azerbaijan has collapsed after a day of intense military effort, described as an anti-terrorist operation, was applied to it by…
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At a recent press conference, an exasperated President Putin replied to criticism of Russia from Armenia: “Before the 2020 Karabakh War and since 1994, Armenia occupied Nagorno-Karabakh & 7 other regions of Azerbaijan. All these years, we requested that Armenia return 5 regions back to Azerbaijan but keep Nagorno-Karabakh, plus 2 other regions (Lachin &…
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The peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia proceeds slowly but in the right direction. After the latest instalment in Moscow, on 26 July, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said “the path is not easy,” and summarised the current progress: “There are many complex and important issues to be resolved. The most sensitive of them was…
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After around 4 weeks of the much trumpeted NATO (Ukrainian) counter-offensive the Washington Post ran an interview with Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top officer in Ukraine’s armed forces. Zaluzhny, who had been mysteriously absent from public view for quite a while made it abundantly clear to the Washington Post that he was not at all…
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“The war I know about is not the war you’re reading about,” Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Ukraine. “It is evident that the conflict, initially a limited territorial war, has evolved into a global economic confrontation between the whole West on one side, and Russia, backed by China, on the other. It has become…
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On December 20/21, France and Armenia had a UN Security Council meeting convened to debate the unfolding situation around the Lachin road in Azerbaijan, where a group of protesters were demonstrating against activities being conducted within the area under the control of Russian peacekeepers. France, a permanent member and chair of the UN Security Council…
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The news from Ukraine comes from the UK’s State Broadcasting agency, the BBC. The BBC constructs its news via journalists relaying the propaganda produced in Kiev and analysis from a network of British state security think tanks. Tom Stevenson, in reviewing a recent book written by one of the chief Ukraine analysts for the BBC,…
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Kiev has launched by far its most successful counter-attack since the Russian Special Military Operation began on 24 February this year. The Ukrainians gained large swathes of territory in the North East around Kharkov that Russian forces were occupying and administering, as opposed to simply performing military operations on. Does this constitute a turning of…
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The war being fought in Ukraine is Washington’s war. That should be clear after 6 months of intense conflict following 8 years of war since the US instigated Maidan coup in 2014. While there is a Russian military operation within the territory of Ukraine there is a Washington war against Russia being fought both within…
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Below is the slightly edited transcript of a discussion I had with Orkhan Amashov of Azernews early in August 2022 on a wide range of issues including Ukraine, Eurasian geopolitics, Azerbaijan, Russian peace keepers, the Karabakh settlement and peace process and the fall of Boris Johnson in the UK. Here is a link to the…
