At a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow, Lavrov said the Kremlin was ready to assist in the normalisation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations.View on euronews

Lavrov responded that while Moscow has strategic partnerships and allied relationships with Armenia as well as with Azerbaijan it has a “vested interest” in seeing Armenia and Azerbaijan normalize their relations.

Turkey and Azerbaijan are currently engaged in political calculations, analyzing the potential opposition or consequences of any possible aggression against Armenia, particularly in relation to opening a so-called corridor to Nakhichevan.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 21. On January 21, an operational meeting of the Land Forces was held under the leadership of Defense Minister Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, Trend reports via the Ministry of Defense.

Iranian President Pezeshkian in a meeting with Azerbaijan's Deputy Prime Minister Mustafayev stressed strengthened cooperation between the two neighbors," said IRNA.

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 21. Russia is prepared to provide the necessary assistance to normalize relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, said Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Trend reports. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan met with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

By Neil Hauer in Yerevan For proponents of Armenia’s ongoing move towards the West, it’s been a big couple of weeks. On January 9, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that his government would soon introduce a bill in parliament that would essentially begin the country’s process of applying to join the European Union.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's recent verbal attack on Armenia has raised doubts about the future of the peace process between the two countries. Aliyev's aggressive rhetoric coincides with strained relations between Azerbaijan and Russia ...

It’s a pity here that Armenia’s authorities do not respond to these accusations because they are not against individuals, but they are accusations as a phenomenon that crimes have taken place in Artsakh since the [19]90s. These do not refer to these persons, but to the phenomenon itself."

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev appeared to ratchet up tension in the South Caucasus by unexpectedly reviving a demand for extraterritorial rights on a land corridor connecting Azerbaijan proper to its Nakhchivan exclave across Armenian territory. But some experts in Baku believe that the issue can be managed.

January 2025 may go down as Armenia’s geopolitical inflection point, a time when Yerevan decisively moved to shun its longtime protector Russia and pin its political and economic future on integration with Western institutions, thus scrambling the strategic balance in the Caucasus.