A ‘Great Game’ is afoot in the Caucasus and Central Asia with Russia gaining an advantage due to recent developments in the Ukraine war. The Western powers have belatedly entered the scene too

Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region which has led to hundreds of deaths

Nagorno-Karabakh is a breakaway region of Azerbaijan with an Armenian ethnic majority. Governments of both the Transcaucasian countries have accused each other of violating the 1994 ceasefire agreement after fighting along the border broke out on Sunday