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Article: Nagorno-Krash'n'bash; the West may have to step in where the Commonwealth of Independent States is having to back out. (Nagorno-Karabakh, former Soviet Union) (Editorial)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 14, 1992
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A luxury for the outside world disappeared with the Soviet Union. The luxury was the knowledge that any fighting within the inner Soviet empire would be quickly suppressed, or at least contained. So long as the Kremlin played the policeman, outsiders did not have to bother too much about places like Nagomo-Karabakh. It was the scene of a far-off conflict of which the West knew-and cared-little. None of our business, said western governments, a Soviet "internal affair". But Nagomo-Karabakh and other ex-Soviet trouble-spots are rapidly becoming everyone's business.
With the Soviet Union's dissolution, Nagomo-Karabakh instantly became an international conflict, with ...