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AFP / Scanpix An Armoured Personnel carrier (APC) of Russian peacekeeping forces is stationed above the demarcation line near the village of Charektar on November 25, 2020, as Azerbaijan said its forces had entered the Kalbajar district, the second of three to be handed back by Armenia as part of a deal that ended weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia - Ukraine War and the South Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan - GS Mastering the growing crisis in the South Caucasus: A role for the West and Turkey The South Caucasus’ regional order has undergone a profound and dynamic transformation in recent years. These monumental shifts have come as a result of, inter alia, the war in Karabakh, internal changes in Georgia, and, above all, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, in particular, has given fundamental importance... posted 17h ago   via   mei.edu   Russia’s War in Ukraine and Reconfiguration in the South Caucasus Azerbaijan’s interest is

  🚨 BREAKING: Ukraine's President Zelensky announced 41-year-old Crimean Tatar Rustem Omerov, current head of State Property Fund, will replace Reznikov as Minister of Defense. This is a very welcome development. 👏 pic.twitter.com/ZwEqkFv1sO — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) September 3, 2023

MSN posted at 21:00:01 UTC   via   msn.com Prigozhin plane crash: What we know over a week after Wagner chief’s death posted at 19:22:53 UTC   via   aljazeera.com In late June, Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin took control of Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don, the opening salvo of a  mutiny against the Kremlin  that ended in a fragile truce orchestrated by Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko. The uprising was a public humiliation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a leader believed to have a long history of taking out those he perceives as traitors. Many believed Prigozhin’s days were numbered. 9.3.23 If the mass killings in the US have something to do with the Prigozhin's "private Spetsnaz", they were paid for, and paid well. Prigozhin is declared dead, and his billions are redistributed. It is likely that this line of financing will dry up. However, as Reuters reports, the news of Prigozhin's demise might be somewhat exaggerated. Selected Article

  The Rival Jewish Spies Who Almost Changed the Course of WWII - Israel News - Haaretz.com posted at 16:16:33 UTC via  haaretz.com The story of the bitter rivalry between two Jewish agents in World War II has led one historian to speculate on the many different ways the war could have played itself out Selected Articles - Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader - The News And Times Manafort used and perfected his Third World Election Algorithms in Africa, where Prigozhin used and trained his murderous troops, the "musicians", called the Wagner Group, an allusion to Hitler's favorite composer. The view of the United States as the Third World country, destined to fall was very common sentiment and almost official doctrine in the KGB - GRU circles; more of the rage than analysis, however. Did they try to prove this theory of America as the Third World country with the staged mass killings, as one of their intimidation tools? Michael Novakhov@mikenov#FBI FBI #Ma