Cautiousness in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan and Armenia clash
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🗓️ 14 September 2022
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A conflict smouldering since a war in 2020 has again caught alight; Azerbaijan may feel emboldened by a distracted Russia and its own energy prospects. Gulf countries are swimming in piles of unexpected, oil-derived cash: we ask whether they will sock it away or splurge on citizens and pet projects. And why many Lebanese couples are choosing to wed online.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.7 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.6 | And in New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:11.6 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.0 | In the Gulf, energy exporters will end up with billions and billions more in their coffers |
| 0:23.1 | than they expected this year. |
| 0:25.0 | Our correspondent looks at where all that cash might go, from quixotic cities in the desert |
| 0:30.3 | to suathes of plush new public sector jobs. |
| 0:35.0 | And in Lebanon, there's no such thing as a civil wedding. |
| 0:38.9 | Residents must marry according to the laws of one of the country's 18 recognized religions. |
| 0:43.9 | That poses a problem for interfaith couples, which they've taken to solving in cyberspace |
| 0:49.8 | and Utah. |
| 0:55.8 | But first... |
| 1:04.2 | Anger and sadness as a funeral takes place in Azerbaijan with blame pulling on Armenia. |
| 1:18.3 | Nearly a hundred people have reportedly been killed in renewed clashes in the southern |
| 1:22.2 | Caucasus, a region that links Eastern Europe with Western Asia. |
| 1:27.0 | Each side blames the other for the flare-up. |
| 1:31.3 | Things may calm after Russia said it had brokered a ceasefire, but we've been here before. |
| 1:38.2 | Back in 2020, the two countries were at the brink of a full-on war. |
| 1:45.6 | That issue was, and again, is, the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave that's formerly |
| 1:51.3 | part of Azerbaijan, but is filled with ethnic Armenians. |
| 1:55.7 | It's been disputed territory since the Russian Revolution during the First World War, when |
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