Russia Monitor Monthly December 2020

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SOURCE: MID.RU

29 December 2020

RUSSIA GIVES WAY TO TURKEY IN THE CAUCASUS Dispatching the Turkish military to the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire monitoring center in the areas that Azerbaijan claimed from Armenia comes as Ankara’s success while being a failure for Moscow. When early November saw a truce in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, Russia gave its green light to the Turkish military presence in the region yet not in the territory seized from Armenia, but somewhere deeper inside Azerbaijan. That would be different, though. Russia is making efforts to cover up its defeat with some vague statements that came after the meeting between the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers.

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