With the help of the international community the sides in the Karabakh conflict should work out modalities on how they can deal with the humanitarian aspects of the problem of unexploded mines and ordinance, says the political editor of commonspace.eu in this commentary

According to the website of the Armenian president the road was built with the help of donations by the Armenian diaspora.

"We are interested in progressing our bilateral track through speedy negotiations on a new strategic agreement with the EU", Foreign Minister Mammadyarov told a meeting of Visegrad 4 foreign ministers in Budapest.

"Long term economic development may play a key role in defining the balance of power between Armenia and Azerbaijan" says Dr Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed

Russian State Duma Education Committee Chairman, Vyacheslav Nikonov says that the solution is to "expand the geography of our Eurasian Union".

The self-declared republics of Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh are taking steps to strengthen co-operation between them, in a move that is likely to cause upset in the rest of the region

The arrest in Baku of the "Doyen" of South Caucasus journalists has fueled speculation about what is going on in Azerbaijan. In this op-ed for commonspace.eu Dennis Sammut discusses the recent arrest of veteran Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Alieyev.

The announcement was made by the current acting US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Process, Ambassador Richard Hoagland, at a meeting at the Washington Press Club on Wednesday (23 August).

The two presidents hailed relations between their countries in comments to the media before starting their discussions

The fire fighting effort has seen a rare moment of regional co-operation. Apart from the soldiers, fire-fighters and civil defence personnel from Georgia, 95 firefighters from Azerbaijan, and 70 from Armenia have been assisting in the operation, bringing with them heavy equipment. Helicopters from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Belarus are also involved.