Archive for the ‘Karabakh’ Category
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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
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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 […]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
Varsenik, Lachin, Kashatagh Region, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
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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 […]
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