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Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan

The long-simmering Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is boiling over while the West and Russia look elsewhere

A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Tofik Babayev/AFP via Getty Images

While the world is watching the destruction in Ukraine, in another corner of the former Soviet Union hostilities smolder.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on April 11, 2023, of starting a firefight close to the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in which seven soldiers were killed.

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