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What’s Behind the Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh
FromHold Your Fire!
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Oct 8, 2020
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Podcast episode
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This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob and Naz question the efficacy of international sanctions, as the European Union wields this overused tool against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. They are then joined by Olesya Vartanyan, Crisis Group’s senior South Caucasus analyst, for a very personal conversation about the toll the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has taken on her friends on both sides as well as an analysis of the role played by Turkey, Russia, and other external actors in the conflict. Background reading by Crisis Group on the war in Nagorno-Karabakh:De-escalating the New Nagorno-Karabakh War - statement on the most recent escalationDigging out of Deadlock in Nagorno-Karabakh - 2019 report mentioned by Olesya in the interviewNagorno-Karabakh’s Gathering War Clouds - 2017 report mentioned by Olesya in the interviewThe Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Oct 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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