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ISWNews Analysis Group: A Russian Mi-35 helicopter crashed between the villages of al-Rayhaniya and al-Qasimiyah west of Tal Tamar.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Russia said in a statement that in an operation on 16 February in Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and Crimean Peninsula, 19 persons with charges of being in or collaborating with Salafi Jihadi Takfir wal-Hijra group are arrested.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a trilateral meeting in Moscow on January 11.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Russian military convoy consisting of armored vehicles and special medical vehicle entered Ain Issa in north of Raqqah province under support of Mi-8 and Mi-35 helicopters.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar signed an agreement to establish a joint Russian-Turkish monitoring center for the Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire.

ISWNews Analysis Group: The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced the establishment of 16 observation posts in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by publishing a map of observation posts and patrol routes of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh.

ISWNews Analysis Group: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that a helicopter of the Russian army was shot down by Azerbaijan on the territory of Armenia.

ISWNews Analysis Group: After 11 hours of talks in Moscow, the Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to implement a temporary ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, which will take effect as of 12 noon on 10 October.

Russia appears to be trying to achieve three goals through mediation between the Kurds and the Syrian government. The first goal is to implement oil contracts between Russia and Syria in the northeastern areas that are now under American control. Russia’s next goal, meanwhile, is to resolve the crisis politically by involving the Kurds in the political process as a concession to the West to enter the reconstruction of Syria and eventually become a trusted mediator in the international arena.

ISWNews Analysis Group: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Damascus eight years after his last visit to Syria at the head of an official delegation and met with Bashar al-Assad.

ISWNews Analysis Group: The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the holding of the first joint military exercise between Russian and Turkish forces in the south of Idlib in the Tarnbah area.

Azerbaijani media reported that the presidents talked about the conflict at Tovuz-Tavush border between Azerbaijan and Armenia last month.