Azerbaijan is attacking Nagorno-Karabakh, the region disputed with Armenia. Very high tensions between Baku and Yerevan over land, already at the center of a long war. In the background is Russia, which was close to Armenia in the past and is now “forced” to partially lose interest in the conflict in Ukraine. Recent news about Azerbaijan’s offensive is pushing Moscow to take a stand. The Kremlin is not ruling out contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan following the renewed flare-up of tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh. This was announced by the spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, according to which “communication is coordinated at the highest level: as soon as there is an agreement, we will immediately inform you, including about any possible interaction at the highest level.”
Russia sees an opportunity for a peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan in the implementation of existing trilateral agreements, Peskov said: “There is this chance (for a peace agreement). From our perspective, these are agreements that we rely on. We continue our contacts with both Baku and Yerevan.” The Kremlin spokesman then admitted that “we are concerned about the sharp escalation of tensions and the start of military fighting.”
Russia also called through the Foreign Ministry for an end to the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia following the military escalation in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. “We are very concerned about such a drastic escalation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh,” said spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Russia, he said at the time, according to CNN, “calls on the parties to the conflict to stop the bloodshed, immediately end hostilities and return to the path of a political and diplomatic solution.”
MEDVEDEV’S MESSAGE TO THE ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER
In the background is the “message” that former President Dmitry Medvedev sent to Armenian Prime Minister Pashynian. “One day a colleague from a brotherly country said to me: ‘For you I am a foreigner, you do not accept me’. I answered what I had to: ‘Let’s not judge by biographies, but by actions’. Then he lost the war, but strangely stayed put,” the former Russian president and current vice president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation wrote on Telegram, referring to the 2020 conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Then he decided to blame Russia for his miserable defeat. Then he left part of his country’s territory, then he decided to flirt with NATO, and his wife went to our enemies,” Medvedev urges, referring to the participation of Pashynian’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, at the “summit of the First Lady and of the Lord” in Kiev on September 7th. “Guess what fate awaits him,” Medvedev concludes.