The South Caucasus region to Russia's south is in flux as Armenia and Azerbaijan seek a peaceful end to 35 years of conflict.
A top Azerbaijani official has denied any role in online smear campaigns targeting France's far-flung overseas territories and its metropolitan core, as the two nations accuse one another of fomenting dangerous instability close to the border with Russia.Following an intense week of diplomacy in which Azerbaijani representatives traveled to the NATO summit in Washington D.C. and the European Political Community summit in the U.K.
Hajiyev said Baku is not involved and suggested that online criticism of France constitutes 'freedom of expression, and we respect that.'Newsweek has contacted the French Foreign Ministry by email to request comment.Baku and Yerevan, the Armenian capital, have been in conflict over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region since both nations gained independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.
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