... and the US in early 1997.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, dating from the 1920s, is one of the oldest conflicts in the former Soviet Union. Flaring up again in 1988 as a movement for unification ...
... integrity of newly independent states.
In the Caucasus, unresolved conflicts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that 'froze' when the region was sovietized re-emerged in, for example, Chechnya, ...
... them to the Karabakh conflict and its consequences. Other post-Soviet states lacking secessionist conflicts do not exhibit superior democratic credentials, as the examples of Belarus or Turkmenistan demonstrate. ...