...region to press for these supplies to be allowed into Nagorno-Karabakh immediately and simultaneously. President Aliyev as well as representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh have publicly stated that they have agreed to...
The Security Context In the month of August, the security environment for Armenia was primarily defined by the continued blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, and the security dilemma — both hard security...
...land-grabbing policies towards Armenia, and its ongoing ethnic cleansing policy against Artsakh . Opponents of Armenia’s withdrawal from the CSTO often present the following arguments: The CSTO did not provide...
...Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh. “The Russian peacekeeping contingent continues to carry out tasks on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Continuous interaction is maintained with Baku, Yerevan and Stepanakert, aimed at...
...of indefinitely postponing the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was subsequently rejected by Azerbaijan, with the further stipulation that it will not discuss anything related to Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. On September...
...As the situation in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) continues to worsen by the day, the warning signs of an impending disaster are becoming more and more prominent. What could be the worst-case...
...small disputed territory known internationally as Nagorno-Karabakh, in the South Caucasus. His job is to determine whether the airport meets international aviation standards, whether it can finally open its runways,...
...Azerbaijani state in their justification for their egregious violation of the basic civil and human rights of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. Fusing the concept of territorial integrity with the...
...Nagorno-Karabakh stemming from the 8-months long blockade of the Lachin corridor – the road of life connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and the outer world. “Today I’m here to seek the...
Imagine being hungry, and being told you aren’t. For more than two months now, I’ve watched as people I know living in Nagorno-Karabakh post more and more desperate messages from...
...humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. The authorities of both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia have announced that Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh, constitute an attempt at ethnic cleansing and contains criteria of a genocide....
...began training at the age of eight in 1992, during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War when there was no electricity and facilities were in poor condition. “In winter, we practiced in...
...Nagorno Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, that we have no international allies that support us on Artsakh, and therefore we should just let it go and stop fighting a futile...
...Forces constantly open fire at civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh who attempt to harvest agricultural products in the very few remaining lands of Nagorno-Karabakh after losing large swathes of territory in the...
...treatment. Baku may now target and detain every male in Nagorno-Karabakh, writes Sossi Tatikyan. Read more “Integration” of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians Sossi Tatikyan Jul 28, 2023 What are Azerbaijan’s real intentions...
...an MBA when he graduated. Instead, he was killed on the front lines near Martakert in Nagorno-Karabakh. Over the weeks that followed, more emails landed in our inboxes at the...
...efforts insulated Armenia-proper from any egregious actions by Azerbaijan, with Baku subsequently turning its attention to the complete strangulation of Nagorno-Karabakh. The negotiation process was restructured into two tracks, the...
Strong emotions are not unconventional in military conflicts, and the one over Nagorno-Karabakh is not an exception. For the last three decades, violence, devastation, and collective traumas have fueled anger...
...14 in Armenia. 3:55 a.m.: The Socialist International issued a statement on the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh: “The Socialist International is deeply concerned about the growing humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh....
...War in 2016, or the 2020 Artsakh War, Azerbaijani security services may increasingly target and detain every male in Nagorno-Karabakh, which may turn into a deprivation of Nagorno-Karabakh’s male population...
...and rights of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. The critical stage of the blockade clearly demonstrates Azerbaijan’s long-suspected mega-intentions. Some of these intentions are related to Nagorno-Karabakh and others –...
...Just five kilometers to the north, Stepanakert, a town of just over 60,000, essential goods have all but disappeared as Azerbaijan continues to keep Nagorno-Karabakh’s 120,000 Armenians under siege. Pregnant...
...Azerbaijan’s ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor since December 2022, slowly starving the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh in what Pashinyan has coined “an ongoing process of genocide”. And yet, according to...
...as Nagorno-Karabakh. They “encourage” the Armenians in Artsakh to use a one way ticket out of their homes. They announce programs to populate Artsakh with ethnic Azerbaijanis in numbers far...
...can see it in the father’s eyes. For the past seven months, Azerbaijan has kept the population of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) under a crippling siege. As Baku ruthlessly imposes collective...
...Nagorno-Karabakh, however with the “understanding that the issue of the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh must be discussed within a framework of an international mechanism, through Stepanakert-Baku...
...I: What May Happen to Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan Apr 25, 2022 In Part 1 of a three-part series, Sossi Tatikyan analyzes the uncertainties and possible scenarios for Nagorno-Karabakh...
...against Armenia-proper as well as Nagorno-Karabakh. The intensification of the negotiation process, at the same time, should be qualified within the context of the West’s stabilization efforts, a process designed...
...demonstrated by the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh, under the conditions of which it becomes obvious that Azerbaijan is pursuing a consistent policy of escalating the situation and depopulating Nagorno-Karabakh.” He said...
...of the post-Cold War status quo and previous security architecture. While not justifying the fatal mistakes of the Armenian side, Nagorno-Karabakh was just another link in the spiraling logic of...
...victims of the 1915 genocide in ways unmentionable in this piece, but apparently fit for consumption on Twitter on and around April 24. For the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, it enables...
...statement signed by Aliyev approximately three years ago; Baku is actively changing the situation on the ground in order to renegotiate a new status quo where the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is...
...articles about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These include reports on the 2020 war from Artsakh and Armenia. Roberto Travan is a journalist and independent photographer specializing in documenting humanitarian conflicts and...
...the last decade with the “Kuwait on the Caspian” only add to Tehran’s suspicions. Post-2020 War Tensions During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Armenian forces seized territory along the internationally recognized...
...end, developments in Nagorno-Karabakh are to be qualified through a new maxim: the alignment of Russo-Azerbaijani interests define developments, and the basic interests of the Artsakh Armenians or Russia’s treaty...
...progress in Armenian-Turkish dialogue and give Armenia’s prime minister reason to be hopeful for a breakthrough, achieving such an outcome remains far from certain. Azerbaijan: The Main Spoiler The Nagorno-Karabakh...
...Nagorno-Karabakh War, resulting in the “Cold and Dark Years” of the early 1990s. The country, whose population prided themselves on their living standards, and where independence was greeted with overflowing...
...needs, it is important to acknowledge the risks and challenges that come with it, particularly in light of Russia’s tensions with Europe. Russia’s dominant mediating role in Nagorno-Karabakh means that...
...as “Azerbaijan continues movements of its troops along the state border with Armenia and the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh.” 9:13 a.m.: The European Union Mission in Armenia (EUMA) reports...
...The Imperative for International Guarantees for Security and Rights in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan Mar 9, 2023 Azerbaijan’s threat of military aggression and ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh’s indigenous Armenian population remains...
...of latent brinkmanship to deteriorate the security environment. This was supplemented by transferring localized operations to the domain of Nagorno-Karabakh, as Azerbaijan initiated two large operations: the sabotage of three...
...to self-determination via free expression of will.” Armenia likely hoped to win Russia’s favor and accentuate the right to self-determination over territorial integrity in the context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
...devastating 1988 earthquake and during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Over 30 years have passed since the start of that more intensive contact between Armenia and the diaspora, and both continue...
...insecurity and the widespread availability of weapons transformed a dispute over status and territory into full-scale war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Even after decades of negotiations, a peace settlement is a distant...
Azerbaijan’s ambush in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) on March 5, 2023, resulting in the killing of three policemen of Nagorno-Karabakh and followed by the killing of two servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed...
...mother has been stuck on the border with Nagorno-Karabakh, unable to get back to their home and her husband in Stepanakert because the only road in or out is under...
...mission to Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor, thus appealing to the international rules-based order as a deterring remedy to Baku’s aggression and Moscow’s obstructionism. This comes on the heels of...
...itself as a party to the 2020 war and the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and the fact that Turkish society generally takes Azerbaijan’s side as if watching an international match,...
...were issued on the 73rd day since Nagorno-Karabakh has been under siege after Azerbaijani so-called “eco-activists” set up camp on December 12, 2022, to block the only road linking its...
...on February 2, 2023, with people gathered for a conference entitled “High Intensity Conflicts, From Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine: Continuities and Ruptures in Air and Land Combat.” Military officers make up...
...Nazaretyan looks at some of the possible reasons. Read more In Nagorno-Karabakh, Upholding the Notion of Territorial Integrity Means Ethnic Cleansing for Armenians Karena Avedissian Dec 8, 2022 In Nagorno-Karabakh,...
...people in Nagorno-Karabakh are afraid of another bloody war breaking out again,” explains Simonyan. “Being ethnically cleansed and exiled from their ancestral land is the biggest fear of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians...
...Nagorno-Karabakh’s problems with energy began shortly after the 2020 Artsakh War erupted in late September that year. Nagorno-Karabakh lost most of its hydropower plants in the war, as they were...
...the Armenia-Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts. Read more In Nagorno-Karabakh, Upholding the Notion of Territorial Integrity Means Ethnic Cleansing for Armenians Karena Avedissian Dec 8, 2022 In Nagorno-Karabakh, the consequences of...
...be specific to Nagorno-Karabakh, as its incursions into sovereign Armenian territory demonstrate, as its claims of a “Zangezur Corridor,” which Aliyev himself concedes he artificially concocted, clearly indicate, and as...
...Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), including two full-scale wars in 1992–1994 and 2020 and regular skirmishes in the interwar period and beyond. The conflict has led to both countries becoming among the world’s...
...the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. “But one must also take into account the overall context. First of all, France and Armenia are not part of the same military alliance,” he reminded. When...
Dire shortages of basic food and medical supplies, ongoing collective psychological terror, along with gas and electricity supply disruptions under subzero temperatures have been the norm in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) for...
As Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor is now in its second month, all schools in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) were shut down indefinitely starting from January 19, 2023, because of the...
...the idea of the territorial integrity of Armenia and Azerbaijan, but without the so-called “Zangezur corridor”, regardless whether it is under Azerbaijani control or Russian, nor a status for Nagorno-Karabakh,...
...over Libya in 2011. In 1993, the UNSC adopted four resolutions concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. Almost three decades later, during the 2020 Artsakh War, the UNSC twice discussed Nagorno-Karabakh, but did not...
...Armenia and now the almost month-long blockade of the Lachin Corridor by so-called Azerbaijani eco-activists. However, at this time, the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, even moribund, is still standing; Russia officially...
...At the same time, the security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh immensely diminished, with Baku engaging in the hybrid warfare method of compartmentalization and transferring the conflict to the Lachin Corridor, thus...
...the so-called Zangezur corridor and for not withdrawing its armed forces from Artsakh (the Armenian side has said several times that Armenian troops have left Nagorno-Karabakh). Three weeks after the...
...First Nagorno-Karabakh War. This was controversial, because as some analysts noted, the international community does not consider these areas as disputed or part of the entity known as Nagorno-Karabakh. Instead,...
...UN CERD Committee noted that “Azerbaijan isolated Nagorno-Karabakh and its people from the rest of the world, not allowing the entry of international organizations to Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct humanitarian missions”...
...have saved our region from. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been consigned to history. There is no administrative territory called “Nagorno-Karabakh” in Azerbaijan, and if someone wants to resurrect the dead...
...– 1,100 Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, including 270 children, stranded in Armenia, are unable to reunify with their families. Nagorno-Karabakh is running out of critical medical supplies, food and fuel, while schools...
...the Defense Army of Nagorno-Karabakh in the zone of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh. “It is noteworthy that in the information materials published by the Russian peacekeepers, ceasefire violations...
...favored the victory of Azerbaijan against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh war, with the aim, among other things, of defanging the OSCE Minsk Group, co-chaired by France, the United States and...
...Concept of Territorial Integrity The fundamental dispute at the heart of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not between the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan, but rather between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh’s indigenous...
...environment. At the same time, to mitigate a severe Western backlash, Baku is reverting to initiating localized operations against Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh. In essence, Azerbaijan is diversifying its hybrid operations, with interstate...
...Nagorno-Karabakh War, blockade and electricity shortages in the 1990s, American volunteers were sent to remote Armenian villages to live among villagers, to teach in local schools or working to advocate...
...It Is the Karma of Our Times to Live With War Hovik Afyan’s book about the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, “The Red” was published one month after the end of the...
...the martyrs of the Avarayr battle of 451 AD against the Persian army. It was built in 1994-1998 and was dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War...
...of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh. Like many of their compatriots, after the war they decided to stay in what remained of Artsakh and start a new life in Martuni. Born in the village...
...Nagorno-Karabakh, nor does it control the lives of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians. Attempting to create a narrative beneficial to Baku, Azerbaijan’s Global Media Group Director Hamid Gamidov said that the rally’s participants...
...2011. I returned to Kyiv in 2013 and again in 2014 as part of my work for the OSCE Minsk Group to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict when Ukraine assumed the...
After almost three decades of remaining on the sidelines of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict negotiation process, the EU has now stepped in, positioning itself as a mediator in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conciliation...
Since Armenians’ 2020 defeat in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), an existential crisis has erupted within the public discourse. The shockwave produced by this trying time has compelled Armenians to ask hard questions...
...world closes behind it. This window opened with the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, won militarily but not politically. It closed in 2020-2022 with Armenia’s military defeat, even as it was not...
Two years ago, on September 27, Armenians in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Armenia woke up to news of war. Today, on September 27, Armenians in Armenia and Artsakh will go to...
...for the salaries of state-paid scientists. The devastating Spitak Earthquake of 1988 and the six-year-long First Nagorno-Karabakh War would plunge Armenia further into economical turmoil. After the USSR fell, the...
...Artsakh. It was anything but a document on the resolution of the conflict. The primary issues defining the core of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, namely the status of Artsakh, based...
...a case of an authoritarian state attacking a vulnerable democracy. Whereas the legal and historical context of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains multi-tiered with both sides, from America’s lens, having legitimate...
...and a year later the Caucasus Bureau wanted to take Karabakh away from us as well. However, it didn’t work and the decision was made to keep Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan.”...
...in 2021 during yet another round of aggression against Armenia. More recently, these claims have turned into geopolitical blackmail, with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev demanding that Armenia recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as...
...normalization process and the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Armenia-Turkey dialogue was also discussed. 5:10 p.m.: Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry issued a note of protest to the French Ambassador in...
Claiming the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Has Been Resolved Shortly after its victory in the 2020 Artsakh War, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev began stating that there is no longer a Nagorno-Karabakh conflict....
...the principles put forward by Azerbaijan, but considered it necessary to add to them the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was not mentioned in Baku’s proposal. Azerbaijan’s Foreign...
...loss will result in the total isolation of Nagorno-Karabakh and will enable ethnic cleansing and precipitate a humanitarian crisis there. When the Soviet Union was formed, Nagorno-Karabakh and Soviet Armenia...
...Stepanakert’s airport. This is now the second full-length film about the facility. Built in 1974, the airport ceased operations after the First Karabakh War in the 1990s and was scheduled...
...the August 25 deadline. This was further reaffirmed by official Stepanakert, for the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh authorities undertook the responsibility of informing the villagers and organizing the evacuation of the villages prior...
...the security of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, their rights and freedoms, and for a final status of Nagorno-Karabakh. According to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in the past Armenia based...
...stop supporting the bloody separatism of Karabakh. Until this is not done, we should not recognize their (the population of Nagorno-Karabakh) right to live in peace.” It is obvious that...
...May Happen to Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan Apr 25, 2022 In Part 1 of a three-part series, Sossi Tatikyan analyzes the uncertainties and possible scenarios for Nagorno-Karabakh if Armenia’s...
...Nagorno-Karabakh but it is keeping open the possibility of cooperation. This is essential for Armenia in the short-term. The Nagorno-Karabakh issue has always been the exception in which Western and...
...analyzing one of the most vexing conflicts of the post-Soviet space – the Armenian-Azerbaijani dispute over majority-Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). However, although the Karabakh quandary has been subject to numerous studies...
...of its territorial integrity, that argument is no longer valid as it captured not only regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, but also part of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) itself. Moreover,...
...declared that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been resolved, and Karabakh is an inseparable part of Azerbaijan. In Armenia’s 2020 NSS, Artsakh’s sovereignty is described as of “primary value” and that...
...take care of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. Since Turkey has entered into a collusion with Eurasian powers, Ankara represents less of a threat than a partner in the eyes of...
...rights and security of the ethnic Armenian population in Karabakh be addressed.” The term Karabakh (as opposed to Nagorno-Karabakh) is the typical wording used by Azerbaijan. This played into the...
...of Azerbaijan, some of them including Nagorno-Karabakh as part of it. Others, in particular, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have considered the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh unresolved, and while they did...
...Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan Mar 28, 2022 Latest developments in Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrate Azerbaijan’s intent to ethnically cleanse the indigenous Armenian population and highlight the necessity of introducing international...
...themselves to the “inevitable,” as evidenced by the prime minister’s statement about the calls of the international community to Armenia to “lower the bar on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh; otherwise,...
...on the small republic and on neighboring Artsakh (then the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast). In fact, both Armenia and Artsakh sacrificed disproportionately to the rest of the Union. In the war,...
...Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been resolved (and that “there is no entity called Nagorno-Karabakh”). That’s a difficult pill to swallow for Armenians who had once seen Pashinyan as the architect of...
...and possible scenarios for Nagorno-Karabakh if Armenia’s leadership goes ahead with the recognition of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. Read more Part II: What May Happen to Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan...
...the household, Aram, is a former soldier who took part in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and is unconditionally devoted to the Motherland; serving the Republic of Armenia is his core...
...for the Azerbaijanis. Between the two large-scale wars in Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s and 2020, there was no Russian influence in Nagorno-Karabakh. Besides, the Armenian side never recognized the Nagorno-Karabakh...
...to newly independent Armenia. However, the economic and communication blockade following the collapse of the USSR; the First Nagorno-Karabakh War; the loss of former connections and ties and the difficult...
...peacekeepers remain in Nagorno-Karabakh? For how long and is their presence sufficient to ensure the security and human rights of the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh? Pashinyan stated in July 2021...
...the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and attempting to censor the word Nagorno-Karabakh itself, Baku is preventing the Minsk Group co-chairs from entering Artsakh. Lavrov’s statement questioning the survival of the OSCE Minsk...
...only took control of the seven regions around Nagorno-Karabakh, but also occupied a significant portion of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO). The unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has cast a shadow...
...Nagorno-Karabakh or the protection of their rights and freedoms. “The clarification of the final status of Nagorno Karabakh is of fundamental importance for us,” he noted. “These issues are included...
...Grief Working with grief is important. To this day, one can observe the transgenic transmissions of the destructive memory of the Genocide and the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the problems...
...that the security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh was extremely tense. The people gathered around the large table said that an analysis of the situation showed that Azerbaijan was preparing the groundwork...
...Community Must Prevent Azerbaijan’s Creeping Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh Sossi Tatikyan Mar 28, 2022 Latest developments in Nagorno-Karabakh demonstrate Azerbaijan’s intent to ethnically cleanse the indigenous Armenian population and highlight...
...deport them. The statements and actions by Azerbaijan have shown, throughout the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, that Azerbaijan wants the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh without its native Armenian population. The...
Since March 8, 2022, over 100,000 people living in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) have been deprived of natural gas and heating. The main pipeline supplying gas to Artsakh from Armenia was damaged...
...were followed days later by different caliber gunfire, wounding a resident of Khramort. The village lies within the borders of the Soviet-era Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), to which Armenians retreated...
...latter’s sovereignty and inviolability of state borders. Therefore, the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict remains the focal point of the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. While...
...era to follow employment opportunities. Some came here as refugees after the 1988 Spitak Earthquake, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, or fled the pogroms against Armenians in Azerbaijan. Today, Ukraine boasts...
...an overwhelming majority (635 in favor, 2 against, 42 abstentions) on “The destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh”. The trigger for the resolution was the announcement by Azerbaijani authorities that...
...village has no forest. It is not clear how the heating problem will be solved going forward,” shares Mirzoyan. The village was not abandoned during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in...
...necessary. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s actions are only intensifying concerns of ethnic cleansing. What are the risks and opportunities for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the post-war situation and in...
...Armenia, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan at the end of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in May 1994, Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev sought to introduce a Russian peacekeeping force of...
...of Nagorno-Karabakh as a region, as well as the existence of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and started using offensive language toward the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and blocking their role in the...
...Armenia’s security environment, further complicating the prospect of a pro-Armenian resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, posing new challenges to Armenia’s territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty, as well as leading to...
...Policy Changes in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Hranoush Dermoyan Feb 27, 2022 What has Russia’s policy positions and long-term shifts been toward the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as the issue has become more...
...importance for its national security. Historian Sergei Markedonov argues that Russia’s approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was always highly cognizant of developments concerning Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, with a historic...
...Armenian-American academic Khachig Tololyan, who specializes in diaspora studies, made the following remark to political scientist Taline Papazian about the Nagorno-Karabakh question and the impact of Armenian independence on the...
...roots of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be traced back to the territorial and political arrangements set up in the 1920s by the Bolsheviks, when the predominantly Armenian territory of Nagorno-Karabakh...
...cellist Astrig Siranossian. Seasoned photojournalist and war photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie was also returning to France from Armenia in November 2020. He had been in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) for a little more...
...several years in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Republic of Artsakh’s declaration of independence came after years of activism through the Karabakh Movement and was prompted by the inability of the Azerbaijani government...
...Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to ensure solidarity of the Islamic world with Azerbaijan against Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. With this higher profile on the regional and global stage,...
...co-author of a recent White Paper on Armenia’s post-war policy options, his positions on the failures of Armenia’s elites since 1998 regarding the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have earned...
...the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict which is already on the agenda of the OSCE Minsk Group or the implementation of the tripartite agreements which are being discussed by the deputy prime ministers...
...for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, including this current administration, knew that at some point a transfer of land would take place yet they fueled an opposite narrative to...
...small steps, the EU wants to open a space for a greater role in the South Caucasus and particularly in managing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which is now dominated by Russia...
...unit called Nagorno-Karabakh, but the Karabakh economic zone and the Eastern Zangezur economic zone. At the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, the Azerbaijani President even called on the...
...in the implementation of levers of influence (technological, intercultural and intersocial) over time, in parallel with the implementation of a national orientation. Take, for example, the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh...
...path of independence and not participate in the referendum was the infamous Operation Ring during which the Armenian population of several dozen Armenian villages in Nagorno Karabakh was forcibly uprooted...
...regional policy, as well as trying to erase Nagorno-Karabakh as a unit from the regional map. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called it an attempt to remove the Nagorno-Karabakh...
...According to the Kremlin, apart from other issues, “the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh was also discussed. Vladimir Putin informed about the measures taken by the Russian side to ensure the ceasefire,...
...first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan tried to keep active communication with Turkey while the First Nagorno-Karabakh War was still ongoing between ethnic Armenian forces and Azerbaijan. Despite the efforts to establish...
...Nagorno-Karabakh’s sovereignty. The unidimensional reliance on international legal instruments have been insufficient in satisficing the existential issues that the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh faces. The immediacy of the situation requires...
...continue the dialogue” between the two countries on “all unresolved issues related to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh”. Friendship has once again come up against cold realpolitik. A realistic examination is...
...conflict. On May 22, 2015, the Riga Declaration had a brief line about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, expressing its full support to the mediation efforts on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by the...
...actions are the result of the lack of proper condemnation by Armenia’s partners and the international community with regard to Azerbaijan’s aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh in September of last year and...
...been destroyed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and his father had rebuilt it. Now the home is damaged again, and this time around he will rebuild it. But there’s uncertainty...
...9, 2020, brought a new geopolitical reality to the region, turning the tables in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. The devastating defeat in the 44-day war significantly shrank Armenia’s sovereignty and...
...Back in October 2020, when the 2020 Artsakh War was still raging, President Vladimir Putin of Russia recalled that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had started from ethnic clashes, first in the...
...of further marginalization of the OSCE Minsk Group format for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, elbowing out the United States and France. While international media and regional analysts are still discussing...
...Nagorno-Karabakh War. An estimated 5,000 Afghan fighters were sent to Azerbaijan, supported by Pakistani special services, in the early 1990s. They crossed from Afghanistan to Iran under cover of being...
...future, they should include the issue of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh based on the principles stipulated by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.” At the same time, Armenia refused to discuss...
...mistakes of Armenia under the administration of second President Robert Kocharyan, who considered the Karabakh problem already solved and regarded the seven districts surrounding the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast as...
...Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity (1st ed.). MIT Press, 2002. Also see Related articles Nagorno-Karabakh and Iranian Public and Foreign Policy Hamed Kazemzadeh Oct 30, 2020 The 2020 Karabakh War has...
Illustration by Armine Shahbazyan. Since the 44-day war, France has been at the forefront of diplomatic activity in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Not a week goes by without President Emmanuel...
...Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as both countries are members of the Council of Europe. The ECtHR has dealt with multiple cases based on...
...which opened the doors of the Iron Curtain, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the 2020 Artsakh War, which gave rise to a “digital diaspora”. But there are gaping flaws in...
...military solution to the Karabakh conflict.” Aliyev countered, stating, “The international community should first explain that Nagorno-Karabakh is Azerbaijan and, secondly, put serious pressure on the aggressor.” Azerbaijan’s plans to...
...Armenia retreat from Nagorno-Karabakh as a precondition to opening the border and the normalization of relations, saying “Azerbaijan’s interests have always been important to Turkey.” On January 12, 2010, the...
...overview of political party splits and alliances that were formed during these three parliamentary elections. Nagorno-Karabakh Negotiations Since 1992, the main vehicle for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
...a repeat vote. Nagorno-Karabakh Negotiations Ter-Petrosyan was Armenia’s leader through the entirety of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War that had turned into a full-scale war with Azerbaijan by 1992. A...
...President Ilham Aliyev crowed on November 9, 2020, after signing the trilateral ceasefire agreement that ended the war he started. A military stalemate had kept the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the...
...of the shadow of his father, particularly in replacing officials from the “old guard” left over from Heydar Aliyev’s reign. Concerning the possible solutions to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Heydar Aliyev...
...conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The real motives behind the latest 2020 Artsakh War may lay within this context. Turkey sought to “overcome” the obstacle of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue once and for...
...toward us. Reaching Alyat, the trains stopped for a few minutes and then started moving toward Balajar station,” writes Abram Kisibekyan, who had been exiled from Nagorno-Karabakh with his wife...
...than the return of Karabakh.” Obviously, Baku is quite direct in openly speaking about its main objectives: First, Aliyev wants to prevent any discussion on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. Recently,...
...determined since mid-July 2021 to elevate the violence, instigating clashes both against Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia. Armenia’s proportional response to these recent instigations, however, have not gone unnoticed,...
...of Nagorno-Karabakh. Organizations dealing with issues like the exchange of prisoners of war, refugees and the protection of the rights of the residents of the disaster zone were established. The...
...with the Terter and Khachen rivers that provide nearly 85% of the yearly average water supply of Karabakh. Therefore, the largest share of water resources in the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous...
...the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the determination of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, conducting it under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, as was suggested in the statement by the Armenian...
...addressing future developments concerning Nagorno-Karabakh. The Turkish Factor Aside from the fact that Turkey provided extensive support to Azerbaijan to win the war, it is important to understand its...
...in any continuing negotiations over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In an interview, Aliyev specifically noted that Azerbaijan will not change its position regarding the peace process, because Baku’s demands were “fair”...
...future of Nagorno-Karabakh.” Although at this stage, it is unrealistic to consider any kind of cooperation with Azerbaijan when their troops are still within Armenian borders. Directions for Development...
...get better. Suren lost his father during the war. Like him, children who lost relatives or had to flee their native villages in Nagorno-Karabakh meet every week in Kapan’s Center...
...the I’m Honored Alliance noted that cooperation with the OSCE is the vehicle for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They also said that ensuring the security of the people...
...instrumental in laying the foundation of the negotiations over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the principles of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the right to self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh, criticized by...
...the former Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. The Karabakh conflict must be resolved exclusively through peaceful negotiations. Armed Forces It is urgent to develop a comprehensive program for the restoration...
...integrity of the former Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. The Karabakh conflict must be resolved exclusively through peaceful negotiations. EEU, CIS, CSTO The Prosperous Party of Armenia places importance on...
...Group Co-Chairs to achieve a long-term political settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. May 26 Acting PM Pashinyan in Parliament During this week’s Question and Answer session at the National...
...Slow Return to Diplomacy The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, the body that was responsible for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since the end of the First Karabakh War in...
...all the sensitivity and complexity of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Iran has a two-dimensional approach toward the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The internal dimension has to do with the large presence in northern...
...Ghazanchetsots in 1904 and 1975 (source: Shahen Mkrtchyan, Historical-Architectural Monuments of Nagorno-Karabakh, 1980); the church after it was hit twice by the Azerbaijani military on October 8, 2020 (credit: hetq.am);...
...increases in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. “The rise in spending was largely driven by the conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region,” the report reads. More surprising, however, was that,...
...Foreign Policy Documents, vol. 3, Moscow 1959, p. 374. Armenia in International Diplomatic and Soviet Foreign Policy/Affairs Documents, Yerevan. 1972, p. 66. Nagorno-Karabakh in 1918-1923, Collection of documents...
...obscure the facts. The worst tenet of the gaslighting was the branding of Armenians as “occupiers” of Nagorno Karabakh instead of indigenous people with the right to self-determination, thereby delegitimizing...
...from Shushi and other parts of Nagorno-Karabakh (or Artsakh in Armenian), these images and sounds are dusting off clouds of old wounds. I am reminded of how my grandfather Khatcher...
...the Armenians of Artsakh as “separatists,” and Nagorno-Karabakh as some break-away region torn from the territorial jurisdiction of Azerbaijan. It then became clear to most French citizens, who are completely...
...the need to de-escalate the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and tensions elsewhere, he tweeted on October 20, 2020: “Turkey is a key NATO ally and friend of the UK.” Earlier, on...
...a few. Blinken went on to state the Administration will “reinvigorate U.S. engagement to find a permanent settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that protects the security of Nagorno-Karabakh.” So far,...
...day later, the decision was reviewed under Stalin’s direct interference: Karabakh was incorporated into the territory of Soviet Azerbaijan, with only a portion of it designated the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast....
...Nagorno- Karabakh. The European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (EPNK) program supports the organization of dialogue meetings and media projects between various local stakeholders—including women,...
...Nagorno-Karabakh have ended, however, the ceasefire truce was already violated on December 12-13, 2020 and the security situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and also Armenia’s southern Syunik region remains fragile; there are...
...(Nagorno-Karabakh) for over three decades. The conflict is at the very core of the modern statehoods of both countries. It has resulted in two full-scale wars in 1992-94 and 2020...
...proof of loss is that, in addition to relinquishing the seven regions surrounding the Soviet-era Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), Armenia also gave up two other key areas which had been...
...to the West for more than six decades.” Amid this backdrop of a deepening relationship, Russia and Turkey also discussed Nagorno-Karabakh. Notably, in a November 2017 meeting between Erdogan and...
...the Soviet Union. These disputes have often taken turns into military confrontations as seen in the early 1990s (Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh) and more recently, in 2008, with the...
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