If anyone's interested, Russia brokered a ceasefire and hopefully a somewhat long-term (5 year) settlement to hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia. This after Azeri forces smacked around the breakaway Armenian forces and took over a strategic town close to the Nagorno-Karabakh capital Stepanakert. Azerbaijan with its oil wealth and Turkish and Israeli weaponry has a decided military advantage. While Armenia was worried about turning it into a direct Armenia-Azerbaijan war.
A qualified but definite win for Azerbaijan who reignited the warfare:
1) A loss of (conquered) territory by Armenia, as Azeris get some of the buffer land surrounding N-K returned. Thus making disputed N-K an Armenian exclave.
The road corridor from N-K to Armenia will remain open and guarded by nearly 2000 Russian troops.
2) A similar road corridor from the Azeri exclave Nakhchivan to Azerbaijan will be opened. It's a sizable chunk of Azerbaijan land that sits north of Iran and south of Armenia and not adjacent to Azerbaijan, previously necessitating that provisions and trade with the main part of Azerbaijan had to be done via air or through Iran.
3) Azerbaijan has revived the issue Nagorno-Karabakh, which is Azerbaijan land that Armenia took over by war in the 90's, on to the international agenda, after a 3 decade stalemate where nothing happened and the international community didn't care.
Also a Win for Putin who gets to play peacemaker, keep good relations with both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and gets its troops more entangled into the Caucasus (Russian troops already control two chunks of Georgia, in so-called frozen conflicts, Abkhazia which used to be called the Georgian Riviera and South Ossetia, which isn't that far from the Georgia capital Tbilisi and nearly borders the main Georgian highway across the country).
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