RUSSIA’S OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO THE 44-DAY ARTSAKH WAR

Abstract

The 2020 Artsakh war, which resumed on September 27, initially caught the attention of
the international community, and hours later it appeared in the official press of Russia. On
September 30, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov had
telephone conversations with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan, in
the context of which the Russian side expressed serious concern over the ongoing large-scale
hostilities. Russia played a commendable role in the sense that Turkey has not played a
decisive role in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to this day. The publications
on the ceasefire agreement signed between the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, the
President of Azerbaijan and the President of Russia on the night of November 9-10 are
available on V. V. Putin’s, as well as S. V. Lavrov’s websites. The Artsakh issue and its
peaceful settlement have been and, in all probability, will remain on the agenda of Russia’s
foreign policy for a long time. It is noteworthy that Russian (K. Kalle) and Western (J. J. Coil)
researchers have already referred to the 2020 44-day war in their publications, some of which
are of special interest from the geopolitical, diplomatic and political-military point of view.