

Baku missed the time for active geopolitics in the post-Soviet area. Waves of the so-called Arab Spring are approaching Azerbaijan.
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“Ukraine is a hard nut for Azerbaijan to crack,” Stanislav Taravos, Russian political scientist, head of Regnum news agency’s expert group, said in an interview with Analitika.at.ua, commenting on Azeri media’s attempts to draw Ukraine into anti-Armenian propaganda campaign.
According to the expert, Kyiv is the leader in the relations between Kyiv and Baku.
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