Nagorno-Karabakh: What role does Russia play?

For Azerbaijan, the latest attack on the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was an “anti-terrorist operation of local character.” For observers abroad, it seemed like the continuation of the 2020 war that already forced Armenians into painful concessions under the Russian-brokered peace deal.

With Moscow now hopelessly entangled in Ukraine, Armenia and Azerbaijan, who have contended over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades, could have escalated the fighting into a full-fledged conflict,…