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After nearly two years of intermittent border skirmishes and protracted diplomatic talks, Armenia and Azerbaijan are edging closer to reaching a definitive peace agreement to their decades-long dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov's trip to Shusha and the reaction of the Armenian political elite to it remain in the spotlight.

The Armenian public continues to talk about the death of filmmaker Armen Grigoryan, who passed away in the courtroom on July 15.

On his Telegram channel, Azerbaijani political analyst Farhad Mammadov reasons about the purpose of the CIA director's arrival in Armenia.

The fall-out from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted all countries across the region. Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republics have stepped up their co-operation using multiple formats.

Taking into account the formed challenges regarding wheat imports, to ensure food security in the long term, Azerbaijan is planning to substantially increase its wheat production and even export to other countries.

"The intention and purpose are quite clear—to put pressure on Baku and Tbilisi in the most vulnerable spot"

Attempts by different interest groups to sway Canada’s policies to favour one side or the other are detrimental to Canada’s global standing.

Threatening statements come from both the Defense and the Foreign Ministries.

According to Turkish sources, demining of the Turkish-Armenian border zone began about 20 days ago.

The decision of the Armenian National Assembly on amendments and additions to the law "On Defence" is being hotly debated throughout the country.

Armenian masochism, or the nation's proclivity for "long-suffering," can sometimes reach absurd proportions.

The inflexible and gruesome truth about the OSCE Minsk Group is that it is dying a long death, and its throes are protracted. Given the situation on the ground, all the principles and constructs elaborated under its auspices cannot be evoked and the entity itself has become the acme of insipid vacuity.

In this commentary Dennis Sammut says there are many roads open on the way to lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and all need to be explored and exploited.

After years of conflict and animosity Armenia and Azerbaijan are trying to re-define their relationship. Dr Gulshan Pashayeva, a Board member at Baku's AIR Centre gives an Azerbaijani perspective of the state of play in this commentary for commonspace.eu

Present geopolitics of separate countries looks more and more like a private mansion surrounded by nervous and aggressive neighbors - danger threatens everywhere.

Arsen Torosyan, former Armenian Health Minister and an MP of the ruling Civil Contract party, believes that Yerevan should build relations with Baku and Ankara "without middlemen".

A statement was voiced in Armenia that can not only stop the peace talks between Baku and Yerevan, but also trigger active hostilities in Karabakh.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and restrictions on the supply of wheat and other agricultural products through the ports of the Azov and Black Seas, the introduction of export quotas in Russia and Kazakhstan and protective duties on cereals, oilseeds, compound feeds, etc. the situation in the CIS food market has deteriorated markedly.

Arayik Harutyunyan, head of the separatist regime operating in the territory of Azerbaijan temporarily controlled by the Russian peacekeeping forces, complains that Azerbaijanis are watching his every move.

During the 19th century and most of the 20th century, the Caspian was essentially a lake shared between Russia and Persia.

The EU is trying its best, but it is not a magician. For a peace treaty to be brokered and signed requires one country – Armenia – to halt its support for separatism.