The Jewish aspects enjoyed an important place in the two recent military conflicts in the post-Soviet space – a new round of Azerbaijan and Armenia clash and war in Ukraine, which started after the Russian military invasion on 24 February 2022. The reflections on this topic, though, are not identical: while Russian leadership explains their steps with an eligible need to “fight the radical nationalist, Fascist and antisemitic regime in Kyiv”, Ukrainians are often operating the narrative of “Russian aggression as a new Holocaust”. In their turn, the Jewish community of Ukraine is almost totally self-mobilized in support of the country’s political and military leadership, while Russian leaders are satisfied (at least at the moment) with just a formal manifestation of the loyalty of the official leadership of the Jewish organizations. The situation in Southern Caucasus is different: the Jewish topic in the political discourse of both Azerbaijan and Armenia is pushed almost exclusively by foreign interest subjects, predominantly by Iran, and has an explicitly antisemitic appearance.

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