INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
by Azerbaijan, only to backtrack on the promise moments later when journalists pointed out that Vardanyan is no longer a Russian
thousands of ethnic Armenians fleeing the breakaway region.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was unaware of the former investment
had been a Russian citizen when he co-founded the Russian investment banking firm Troika Dialog and served as founding president at the
Moscow School of Management at Skolkovo in the mid-2000s.He later renounced his Russian citizenship and moved to Nagorno-Karabakh, where he
served as the head of the disputed territory between November 2022 and February 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive last week, with Russian peacekeepers deployed there after a 2020 war over the territory refusing
to intervene.Yerevan said Wednesday that more than one-third of Nagorno-Karabakh's population of 120,000 has fled the enclave since
Azerbaijan crushed the rebels' decades-long fight for independent statehood.Armenian diplomats said they will seek consular access to
