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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Sochi ahead of trilateral talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev a month after the worst clashes between the two countries since their war in 2020. Moscow is seeking to reassert its role as a key powerbroker between the Caucasus arch-foes amid the growing Western engagement in the region, where Russia -- distracted by its war in Ukraine -- is visibly losing influence after decades of domination. IMAGES
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visits a military cemetery as Armenia and Azerbaijan mourn the thousands killed in their brief but brutal war for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region on the first anniversary of the conflict. The war for control of the mountainous region left some 6,500 people dead and sparked mutual allegations of war crimes. It ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia hand over to Baku swathes of contested territories it had controlled for decades. IMAGES
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan arrives in Moscow ahead of a tripartite meeting with Russian and Azerbaijani leaders on Nagorno-Karabakh. Vladimir Putin is due to receive Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and the Armenian PM in Moscow for trilateral talks on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement in the contested region, signed on November 9 under the aegis from Russia. IMAGES
Dozens of Armenians, army reservists and volunteers between the ages of 20 and 50, board buses headed towards the border with Nagorno-Karabakh. They plan to join separatists soldiers on the frontline in Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s, where fierce fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan is escalating. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia. IMAGES
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