Foreign and security policy | 31.05.2021 The calm before the storm The bitter defeat over Nagorno-Karabakh has thrown Armenia into a downward spiral. The upcoming election won’t solve the country’s political crisis
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One bloc, two futures? At the latest BRICS summit, Putin argued for an alternative to the existing order while Xi sought to rewrite it. The West saw only a bloc taking shape
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