Yerevan is also deepening ties with the European Union and the United States. Armenia has welcomed a European Union civilian border mission, turning down a similar offer from Russia. This follows ...

As Russia remains preoccupied with its war in Ukraine, its influence is weakening along its southern border, particularly in ...

At a time when Vladimir Putin needs friends in his neighbourhood, he appears instead to be losing them in the South Caucasus. After two centuries of Russian involvement in the region, balancing the ...

Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet in Abu Dhabi to finalise the peace agreement and forge a future side by side after nearly four decades of conflict. What was previously seen as an impossible ...

A move highlighting the Kremlin’s diminished diplomatic and economic influence. Jul 9, 2025 (Photo: gov.ru) Amid escalating tension with Armenia stemming from Yerevan’s desire to pivot westward, and ...

By using a “divide and conquer” strategy to keep Azerbaijan and Armenia under its sphere of influence, Russia caused resentment in both. Now, it may be bringing both sides together.

Azerbaijan’s lightning campaign in Karabakh in 2023 demonstrated to Armenia what Syria’s and Iran’s regimes found out later – Russia is not stepping in to support its allies when they need it.

Armenia’s rapprochement with European Union (EU) member-states is negatively affecting its cooperation with the European Economic Union (EAEU), Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk said ...

Yet the speed of Russia’s loss of clout is striking, considering the dominant position it had gained five years ago as the result of a 44-day war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno ...

PYATIGORSK, July 1. /TASS/. The Western countries are doing their best to limit Russia’s participation in the normalization process between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a senior Russian diplomat said.

More than 600 people of 17 nationalities have fled into Azerbaijan from Iran in the five days since the start of the air war between Israel and Iran, an Azerbaijani source with knowledge of the ...

Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a "fortress Russia" economic model during the war in ...