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Russia and Azerbaijan are working in tandem here to get Zangezur from Armenia. Which will basically neuter Armenia completely.
They straight up denied any real help, and Lukashenko called Aliyev his homie.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


As the near-total closure of the only road in and out of Nagorno-Karabakh enters its third week, the ongoing standoff has sparked fears that the precarious humanitarian situation is threatening to undermine the fragile Moscow-brokered peace agreement that ended the war over the breakaway region two years ago.
Thousands of Karabakh Armenians turned out as part of a series of rallies on December 27 against the ongoing blockade, with dozens setting up a picket line outside the gates of the Russian peacekeeping mission's headquarters at an unused airport near Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Karabakh.
The demonstrations on the road began on December 12, ostensibly over allegations the Karabakh Armenians were polluting the environment by illegally mining gold in the region, inside Azerbaijan's internationally-recognized borders but held by its ethnic Armenian majority since a war that followed the fall of the Soviet Union.


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CSTO anyone?