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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Analysis

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The widening ‘contours’ of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh gave us an opportunity to observe the new interests and participation of a new ‘players’. The participation of new players have hardened the colours of ‘geopolitical mosaic’ and different mass media assets of Russia and western world started to objectively analyse the conflict. The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh region has been assessed by the director of Washington’s Central Asian and Caucasus research institution F. Starr by following way: “The Nagorno-Karabakh issue is not only a problem between of Armenia and Azerbaijan, this is a regional problem and it is a serious threat for all Europe... I would emphasize that nobody declaring that because of the conflict the South Caucasus region is not able to progress and the conflict situation is dangerous. If there will be no solution in following years the situation in the region is going to be more complicated than

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