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These articles initially appeared in English translation in I The Current Digest of the Soviet Press i (1949-1991), I The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press i (1992-2010) and I The Current Digest of the Russian Press i , all published weekly by East View Press. Mediated by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), diplomatic efforts to bridge the gap between Armenia and Azerbaijan were intense, especially when Heydar Aliyev was president of Azerbaijan. The articles are selected from Russian language newspapers, published in Russia as well as in Armenia and Azerbaijan, such as I Bakinsky rabochy i , I Krasnaya zvezda i and I Kommersant" i . [Extracted from the article]

A series of events in 2008 influenced the Karabakh conflict resolution efforts: the Kosovo declaration of independence, the August war, and Russian recognition of independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Two new diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Karabakh conflict were launched immediately after the August war, one by Russia and the second by Turkey. This article discusses why the two initiatives failed, and the structural problems of Karabakh conflict resolution efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]