Russia Joins US in Urging Cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh
(World News Russia)

MOSCOW - Russia joined the U.S. and other nations urging restraint from Azerbaijan and Armenia as fierce weekend fighting between the two rival neighbors over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region threatened to spiral into a wider conflict in the South Caucasus region. `We call on all sides in the conflict to show maximum restraint, to reject military methods and refuse any steps that might provoke an undesired escalation of the situation that is de facto already a military conflict,` said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in remarks to journalists in Moscow on Monday.   Peskov added that President Vladimir Putin had discussed the crisis with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol...