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The defeat in the 44-day war greatly affected the diaspora's opinion of the authorities in Armenia. However, further attempts by Russian Armenians to interfere in Armenia's domestic politics and influence the situation were unsuccessful.

Armenian refugees from Karabakh staged a protest in front of the Russian and French embassies in Yerevan yesterday, demanding that they "ensure the safety" of the Armenians living in the Azerbaijani territories currently controlled by the Russian peacekeepers.

This is the way of the world: success always attracts not only new friends, but also ill-wishers. Perhaps this axiom is applicable to entire states as much as it is to individuals. At any rate, for several years now Azerbaijan's diplomatic, economic, military, and political accomplishments have been causing anxiety to those who lose sleep over the well-being of others.

Russia, which still sees itself as the South Caucasus "curator," does not have enough strength anymore to keep this way in reality.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Great Britain was attacked by the radical Shia group Khoddam Al-Mahdi (Mahdi Servants Union). British police forcibly removed the attackers from the building and taken some of them into custody. No embassy personnel were harmed in the incident.

A drowning man grasps at straws, and the Armenian political elite in any difficult situation tries to improve its standing using fake news.

Modest Kolerov, Editor-in-Chief of REGNUM news agency, former head of the Interregional and Cultural Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Administration and one of the Kremlin "hawks", called on Armenia to "stay away from the European Union".

There are different kinds of propaganda. Quality propaganda, solid propaganda, relevant and compelling propaganda, as well as unnecessary and even malignant propaganda.

Great Russian chauvinism in action. A broken record has contributed to the ephemeral sentiment that fuels Russia's inferiority complex.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's war with the Dashnaks continues. According to recent reports, another leader of the Armenian diaspora in Europe, head of the Dashnaktsutyun party office in the Netherlands Masis Abrahamyan, has been detained at the Zvartnots airport and not allowed into Yerevan.

According to him, diaspora Armenians are people without a political will, who have an abstract idea about Armenia, nation, and statehood.

For 30 years, the Azerbaijan Republic has successfully developed on its own in the contemporary era.

During a visit this month to Yerevan, CIA Director William Burns warned Armenia about assisting Russia to evade Western sanctions, including high-technology, imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

No sooner has the ink dried on the document on gas supply cooperation between Azerbaijan and the European Union than the Kremlin lobby in Europe began to stir, attacking this decision.

The working visit of UN General Assembly President Abdullah Shahid to Armenia has become an occasion for an international scandal, in which this UN official was easily involved with the cunning inherent in the Armenian nation. The provocation did not work, but, as they say, the smell remained.

On June 21, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev paid a two-day official visit to Uzbekistan, where he met with his counterpart, Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to reaching a peace agreement that would help to alleviate Armenia’s relative isolation.

There is a Russian saying, "one learns from one's mistakes". But Otto von Bismarck said: "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes."

One of the most significant developments in the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process since the end of the Second Karabakh War occurred on July 19 when the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, in an interview with local media, declared that Armenia will withdraw its armed forces from  Karabakh.

The phrase "Nagorno-Karabakh" no longer exists for Brussels. And there is no "status" at all. This horrifying thought came one fine morning to opposition activist Ashotyan, one of the bosses in Sargsyan's Republican Party of Armenia.

The last two weeks have been momentous in the more than year and a half since the end of the war. Armenia's decision to withdraw its troops from Karabakh is barely being discussed in Armenia, and not without reason.

A book, titled “Mysterious Tales of Tabriz”, has been an epicentre of a political polemic as it took mass and social media by storm after a publication by Israel’s Azerbaijani ambassador with it on July 20.