The four Azerbaijani exclaves in Armenia and the three Armenian ones in Azerbaijan, marked on Soviet maps but largely depopulated and destroyed during the Karabakh war and seldom mentioned since, are likely to heat up after the June elections in Armenia, according to Russian Aleksey Baliyev.

That is because in resolving the Karabakh dispute, he says, the two countries agreed to go back to the borders as established in Soviet times and thus must address the exclave issue as the two work to delimit and then demarcate the exact border between them and the likelihood that........

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