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A Russian Red Cross lorry in Azerbaijan. Photo: Azertac

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Nagorno-Karabakh agrees to receive Russian humanitarian aid through Aghdam

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Nagorno-Karabakh’s government announced on Saturday that the region would accept humanitarian aid sent by the Russian Red Cross through Azerbaijan-controlled territory. The announcement came hours after the parliament’s election of a new president. While Azerbaijan has pushed for Nagorno-Karabakh to accept aid sent via the Aghdam–Stepanakert road for weeks, sending an aid convoy to the line of contact in late August, the government in Stepanakert had previously maintained that it would only a

Ulviyya Babasoy and other volunteers load aid for displaced families onto trucks, Barda. Photo: Ulviyya Babasoy.

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Azerbaijan’s volunteers in the line of fire

by Hamida Giyasbayli

•6 min read

When the Azerbaijani government failed to take care of the civilians staying near the front during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, it was volunteers who stepped in. Their sometimes secret work continued despite danger, injury, and personal tragedy. When the war began, Barda resident and career peacebuilder, Ulviyya Babasoy fell into a deep depression. She told OC Media she first began volunteering because she felt she had to somehow make herself feel useful. At the first, her work was sporadic

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In pictures | Life along the Azerbaijani border regions of Gazakh and Tovuz

by Seymur Kazimov

•7 min read

Along the Armenian–Azerbaijani border, ceasefire violations occur frequently from both sides. In the villages of Gazakh and Tovuz districts of Azerbaijan closest to the frontline, some report the shooting has become less frequent, but the violence can still mean a loss of livelihood or even a loss of life. Jumshud Mursalov, 53, was born in Bala Jafarli; there are currently six members of his family still living in the village. Lying near the border with Armenia in Azerbaijan’s north-we

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Children with disabilities are being left behind in Azerbaijan’s frontline villages

by Seymur Kazimov

•6 min read

Children with disabilities in Azerbaijan do not always have the chance to benefit from their right to an education. Special education facilities are not available in most regions of the country — and this is no exception in the villages along the frontline. ‘No, no, what are you talking about? Disability?! I have one child, I cannot agree that he has a disability, even his inclusion in a disability group. My son will be healed!’ Tarana Zeynalova is a secondary school teacher in west