Archive for the ‘Karabakh’ Category

Azerbaijan, Armenia Stalling for time in Karabakh Peace Talks

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

RFE/RL quotes Peter Semneby, the European Union’s special representative for the South Caucasus region, as saying that both Armenia and Azerbaijan are stalling for time in continuing efforts to resolve the long-standing conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.
Semneby told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that Azerbaijan in particular appears to be hoping that income from […]

Azeri Airliner Lands in Armenia

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

For the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union an Azerbaijani airliner has landed at Armenia’s main Zvartnots Airport. In what was no doubt as much symbolic in the context of continuing attempts to resolve the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh than simply travel, the Azal Airlines TU–134 carried the three OSCE […]

Demographic Crisis in Lachin

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Suarassy, Kashatagh Region, Armenian controlled Republic of Azerbaijan / Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Eurasianet 2006
Eurasianet has published my article on the demographic crisis in and around Lachin, the strategic main artery connecting the Republic of Armenia with the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. The article is part of an ongoing project […]

Fires in No Man’s Land

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Meghvadzor, Kashatagh Region, Armenian controlled Republic of Azerbaijan / Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor has more on the controversy over recent fires that have devastated large amounts of agricultural land in territory surrounding the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh. The area, technically sovereign Azerbaijani […]

An Interview with Samuel Kocharian, Director of the AGAPE Children’s Home, Lachin, Kashatagh Region

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Samuel Kocharian, AGAPE Children’s Home, Berdzor (Lachin), Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
The Armenian News Network — Groong has just published another one of my interviews conducted in Lachin two weeks ago. The interview is one in a series for articles that will be published by Eurasianet and the Institute […]

Lachin 2000-03 Gallery

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Until I get round to doing a proper edit of hundreds of photos shot in Lachin and the surrounding villages from 2000-03, I’ve put together a small gallery of just under 40 images here. Anyway, I wrote about Lachin way back then as well.
Anyone taking the road from Goris to Stepanakert has passed through Lachin, […]

Church Service, Lachin, Kashatagh Region

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Church Service, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2003

Church Service, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2003

An Interview with Lyova Tasalian, Head of the Department of Social Welfare, Labor and Employment, Kashatagh Region

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Anahit & Varsenik, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2000
A rather short interview with the Head of the Department of Social
Welfare, Labor and Employment for the Kashatagh Region sandwiched between Karabakh proper and Armenia has now been published by the Armenian News Network-Groong.
OK: What qualifies as a multiple number […]

Varsenik, Lachin, Kashatagh Region

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Varsenik, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002

An Interview with Gagik Kosakian, Deputy Governor of the Kashatagh Region

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

The Armenian News Network — Groong has just published one of a few interviews conducted on my recent visit to Lachin, administrative center of the new Kashatagh region sandwiched between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. The first is with Gagik Kosakian, Deputy Governor of the Kashtagh region.
Recent reports in the Armenian press suggest that the population […]