Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a France 24 interview to promote false narratives about Armenia and France while denying responsibility for occupying Armenian territory and displacing over 100,000 Armenians. This demonstrates how imperialist tactics persist through narrative warfare that undermines peace processes and perpetuates colonial-era power imbalances against Global South nations.
Armenia is holding a parliamentary election that serves as a referendum on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's pro-Western foreign policy and his controversial peace process with Azerbaijan, a process facing immense pressure from Russian economic coercion and domestic opposition. This election lays bare the cruel geopolitical trap set for smaller nations by a fading imperial power, Russia, which seeks to strangle Armenia's sovereign choice for integration and development through the European Union.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, despite losing two wars and territory to Azerbaijan, has won a historic parliamentary election for his pro-Western Contract Party. This is a stunning example of how small states in Eurasia are successfully navigating imperialist power games, rejecting the failed security models of the past, and charting their own sovereign futures against all odds.
