Epstein Secrets

could be worse for Baku if proof of complicity leaks out. And, pipeline routing disputes aside, all five Caspian littoral states — Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan — share an obvious interest in ensuring energy stability. Given what's at stake, Baku has been careful about pursuing an

r former President Abulfaz Elcibey and his Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, a factor that prompted Iran to support Christian Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.South of the Araxes, Tehran remains acutely sensitive to potential Azeri irredentism stoked by the existence of independent Azerbaijan, despite

uld be worse for Baku if proof of complicity leaks out. And, pipeline routing disputes aside, all five Caspian littoral states — Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan — share an obvious interest in ensuring energy stability. Given what's at stake, Baku has been careful about pursuing an

nal priority, which is the "restoration of territorial integrity." According to the 2007 National Security Concept, Armenia's ongoing occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts represents the "major determinant of the country's security environment and...a key factor in the formulation of the

lationship with a teenage Moroccan belly dancer suspected of prostitution. Either way, he unloaded on Hillary during an awkward one-on-one in Astana, Kazakhstan. According to a firsthand account I heard an hour afterward in a hallway near the conference room, Berlusconi told Hillary, “The press is all over m

of state isn’t as much fun as it sounds. Imagine having to spend your days saying things like “We must also renew our efforts toward a settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh based on basic principles elaborated under the auspices of the Minsk Group.” That’s Hillary’s life. Once she accepted the post, she consulted all th