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Moscow Times (16 October 2020)

Whichever way you look at it, the menu of Russia’s options ranges from bad to worse.

On Oct. 14, after almost three weeks of war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the situation.

After almost thirty years of smoldering conflict Turkey fanned the flames by inserting itself as a de-facto party on the side of Azerbaijan. The Russian position on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue and the dispute over the seven Armenia-occupied areas hasn’t changed in principle since the early 1990s. But the “Turkish factor” is now pushing Moscow to deal with yet another layer to the conflict.

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