While on the surface tame-seeming, the comment was nothing short of a watershed as an acknowledgment that Armenia and Turkey must find a way to co-exist, like it or not, more than 100 years of the deadly events.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has walked a tightrope now for nearly 27 years. He’s frequently shrugged off the “last dictator in Europe”, an “autocrat” and other damning epithets.

Russia’s supply of cutting-edge military technology to Armenia is sharpening Azeri mistrust of Moscow, Murad Muradov and Taras Kuzio write in an opinion piece published on Rusi.org.