Category: Caucasus
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Turkiye Attempts To Influence Azerbaijan’s Relations with Israel, early May, 2025
This post contains two articles concerning the anticipated visit in early May to Baku by Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. The first article, written by A. Qafarli, was carried on the internet news site, modern.az, on May 2, 2025, in connection with Netanyahu’s expected arrival on May 7. Although that trip did not materialize –…
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Putin Ally Dmitri Medvedev Makes Ukraine-Centric Observations From Three Recent Events, Early December 2024
In his December 1, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed “three events at the very beginning of winter” that had caught his attention, which, from his perspective, related to the situation in Ukraine. Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia Seeks Rapprochement with Azerbaijan, Agrees to Military Cooperation with Greece, late-February, early March 2024
Armenia, a majority of whose population belongs to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, finds itself the recipient of an unenviable piece of real estate that is squeezed between the two overwhelmingly Muslim nations, Turkey and Azerbaijan. This tension led to the 1915 genocide against the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and more…
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Türkiye will speak against Israel at the UN International Court, mid-February 2024 Report
The Russian internet news site mk-turkey.ru, which reports Turkish news in the Russian language, on February 11, 2024, issued an article taken from the Turkish news source, Haber Global [World News], which is based in Türkiye but owned by Azeri businessmen Elnur Abdullayev and Mammad Gulmammadov. The channel’s slogan is “The Free [as in ‘Independent’]…
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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
The Dragon is Slain 