When I visited Stepanakert last May, I was given the opportunity to go to the Stendal Music Club at the bottom of Mashtots Street, just for a drink, chat, and a little karaoke – not a past-time that I’m particularly… Read More ›
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Nagorno-Karabakh : Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict begins to escalate
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 ›
25 Voices from Artsakh are heard in London
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 ›
Azerbaijan : In the eye of the storm
A diplomatic cable from January 2009 released by Wikileaks exposed the true nature of the relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan. The cable notes that, Ilham Aliyev describes the relationship like an iceberg “nine tenths of it below the surface”. It… Read More ›
Artsakh Peace : Frozen by Pipeline Geo-politics
In a previous article, “Artsakh Peace and Recognition : the future is not in the past” I made reference to the speed with which the independence of Kosovo was recognised. This was in the context of a situation in 1999… Read More ›
Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army helps maintain the peace
The Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army was formed in the early 1990’s to protect the remaining ethnic Armenians in the autonomous state. It patrols and protects the “line of contact” that describes the final positions of the Karabakhi and Azeri forces as… Read More ›
Nagorno-Karabagh: Peace talks turn to sabre rattling
MORE ARTICLES ON ARTSAKH / NAGORNO-KARABAKH Peace talks led by the Kremlin, between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were held on 24th June 2011 in Kazan with the objective of securing agreement on the basic principles of a Nagorno-Karabagh conflict settlement…. Read More ›
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