A peace deal ends a bloody war over Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan wins some land, while Turkey and Russia carve out spheres of influence
THE TWO capitals erupted at roughly the same time. On November 9th, known as the national flag day in Azerbaijan, Baku burst into jubilation. Crowds swarmed the city and flocked to the Alley of Martyrs, a memorial to fallen soldiers. They wrapped themselves in Azerbaijani and Turkish flags, sang the national anthem and praised their victorious leader, Ilham Aliyev. On the same day in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, angry crowds stormed the parliament building, cursing Nikol Pashinyan, their prime minister.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Peace, for now”
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