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• Operation Ring : Trading and torturing hostages in the Heart of Artsakh

  By Russell Pollard on June 26, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  In the spring of 1991, the Soviet Army and the Azerbaijani OMON initiated Operation Ring. The villages of Getashen and Martunashen in that area were subject to violent attack and the populations forcibly deported. On May 7, an operation was… Read More ›

• Self-Determination; The Falkland Islands vote could help Artsakh

  By Russell Pollard on June 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Almost 30 years ago the Argentinian army invaded the British territory of the Falkland Isles, which precipitated a conflict lasting 2 months and costing just over 900 lives from both sides. This was an opportunistic raid by the Argentinians who… Read More ›

• Nagorno-Karabakh : Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict begins to escalate

  By Russell Pollard on June 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  It’s difficult to say whether this is coincidental, or a matter of policy, but the conflict, and killings between Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and Azerbaijan have taken a worrying trend during the period of Hillary Clinton’s visit to the region. In… Read More ›

• Armenian Genocide ; Eye-Witness Accounts ( Part 6)

  By Russell Pollard on June 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  In 1916, a book was published entitled “The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16. Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs”, by Viscount Bryce which contained a comprehensive collection of documents produced… Read More ›

• Military Parade – securing the future; that’s what the little girl wants.

  By Russell Pollard on June 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  From the perspective of the “west”, the notion of a military parade seems very anachronistic and reflects back to the lost days of the Soviet empire. The show of strength seemed to be more about pandering to the needs of… Read More ›

• Azerbaijan lacks Eurovision

  By Russell Pollard on June 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  In the UK the Eurovision song contest is seen, at best, as frothy light entertainment with little substance, and little relevance. This may, in part be due to the fact that we rarely win it, and on most occasions, get… Read More ›

• Artsakh State University team are invited to the Russian-Armenian University Intellectual Games in Yerevan for the first time.

  By Russell Pollard on May 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  For several years the Russian-Armenian University (RAU) in Yerevan has been holding “Intellectual Games” in Yerevan, comprising students from different institutions throughout the Republic of Armenia; these games are held in Russian. The Games promote fluency in the Russian language… Read More ›

• An Englishman remembers the Liberation of Shushi

  By Russell Pollard on May 27, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  My fifth visit to Artsakh was planned to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of the Liberation of Shushi, with the intention of becoming involved in events and witnessing the way that such an occasion was to be commemorated. My expectation… Read More ›

• 25 Voices from Artsakh are heard in London

  By Russell Pollard on May 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A very powerful way of changing the perception that people have of unknown areas of the world from blank, grey, faceless, and foreign zones into something  centred around real people, evoking real human emotions, is through personal stories. The “25… Read More ›

• An Englishman returns to Artsakh

  By Russell Pollard on May 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  My last journey along the long road from Shushi, through the border with Armenia, Goris, and finally to Yerevan seems like a lifetime ago.  Not a day has gone past that I have not thought about the people of Armenia… Read More ›

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