Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently announced that Russia was fine with letting Armenia and Azerbaijan work out their own peace deal without Kremlin mediation. But it appears Russia can’t help itself from meddling, as Moscow seeks to preserve a controlling level of influence in the Caucasus. Armenian law enforcement officials announced September 18 that they had broken up a Russian-sponsored effort to foment an uprising aimed at overthrowing Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government and installing a more Kremlin-friendly…
