Azeri civilians backed and led by their government officials raped and tortured to death hundreds of Armenians in the Azeri cities of Baku and Sumgait between 1988-1990 whence thousands of Armenians living in Azerbaijan were ethnically cleansed. Under the old Soviet central planning system, Armenia had developed a modern industrial sector, supplying machine tools, textiles, and other manufactured goods to sister republics in exchange for raw materials and energy. I support a Russian/Iranian/Turkish accommodation to keep the West out of the region and stability.

I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but I don’t believe North Korea would have made these mistakes. Agree that Azeris will have to pull their heads in once the Turk is out of the picture.

He knows Russia will not stand for that — they’ve discussed this with RF since Chechnya war days — and in reply RF will simply boost support for the PKK/YPG, giving him a gigantic headache on home turf. This is expected to change after the 2018 Armenian revolution. And don’t get me started with the Tel Aviv gang. For all enterprises, the workers would receive 20% of their firm's property free of charge; 30% would be distributed to all citizens by means of vouchers; and the remaining 50% was to be distributed by the government, with preference given to members of the labour organisations. It is getting the worst of it by far on the battlefield and is now trying to draw Russia into the conflict to save its occupation in Karabakh.

And this despite still insisting on our (largely non-existent and hypocritical) “neutrality”. In 2018 receipts from international tourism amounted to $1.2 billion, nearly twice the value for 2010. [35], Armenia introduced elements of the free market and privatisation into their economic system in the late 1980s, when Mikhail Gorbachov began advocating economic reform. This was a result of about 8 percent increase in goods export and 21 percent increase on goods import in nominal terms year on year in 2018. Azerbaijan has a perfect right to defend its civilians and fight on its own territory. [87], In Armenia's external debt ($5.5 billion as of January 1, 2018), the arrears for multi-country credit programs dominate - 66.2% or $3.6 billion, followed by debt on bilateral loan programs - 17.5% or $958.9 million and investments of non-residents in Armenian Eurobonds - 15,4% or $844.9 million. In any case, no-one has the right to commit genocide on a peaceful population who are living on their own land without bothering anyone else.

They must trust nothing the West say or do. So where we are going from here? Unfortunate as it is, it has been the way of life everywhere really but especially in that part of the world for eons.

This will take a few days to ferry them out and back to Syria or Libya. Surely they must be worried about sunni mercenaries next to their North frontier? On November 5, 2002, Armenia transferred control of 5 state enterprises to Russia in an assets-for-debts transaction which settled $100 million of Armenian state debts to Russia. So he’s no magician and no matter what his admirers say about him he also make wrong decision sometimes but what cannot be denied is that he tried to do his best for Russia based on his secular outlook. As I said before this man never learns his lessons.

[140] "I think you can only go so far with this economic model," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told a news conference in Yerevan.

Look at the Yemenis who would have shoved the you know who and their US backers into the Red Sea if they are better trained, including producing their own drones and missiles. In 2015 they reached 10-year low at $1.6 billion.

Jesus once said ” the meek will inheret the earth.”.

Unless if course you have a mega-backer…bigger than Turkey. Ther is a far more potwnt obstacle.to full spectrum dominance. Perhaps he would have sent headchoppers and troops into Syria, colonised Afrin, sent headchoppers and troops into Libya, saved the slave trading, refugee smuggling, anti Russia GNA? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is purportedly keen to gain influence in the Caucasus, but will Moscow allow a rival player in its backyard? Think of the consequences of such a scenario for Russia, so Putin sold this qualitative weapons to Turkey to keep Erdogan safe and make it difficult for him to fully return to the US camp. It was the Russians that gave the Dutch MH17 Black Boxes unopened. Azerbaijan’s energy-dominated exports are worth some $15 billion per year, with Turkey second only to Italy among the top buyers. [32], By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's regime had revoked the NEP and reestablished the state monopoly on all economic activity. The investment programs for these companies must still be approved by government. 2. Only hatred between Serbs and Albanians can be compared to that and even that hatred is not comparable to hatred between Azeris and Armenians.

See, in Bosnia not all Croats are the same, not all serbs are nor Muslims.