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Jan 2023
24m 8s

Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Pu...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Ruben Vardanyan, state minister of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, run by ethnic Armenians but surrounded by Azerbaijan and the subject of years of conflict. The Armenians have traditionally been backed by Russia, but is Putin a reliable ally?

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