Thomas de Waal: Can The 'Medvedev Moment' Be Saved For Karabakh?

Always tortuous, the peace process over Nagorno-Karabakh is entering an unusually difficult phase. High hopes were raised ahead of the June 24 meeting in Kazan between Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, and chaired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, that an accord would finally be struck on the framework agreement, the long-discussed Document on Basic Principles.

But nothing came of it.

What exactly happened at Kazan, and what happens now?

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