Lachin Blockade

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Red Cross vehicles in Stepanakert on 26 June. Still from video, Marut Vanyan/Twitter

Armenia

Azerbaijani Red Crescent accused of celebrating government’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has revealed the ways in which Azerbaijan impeded the humanitarian work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and how the Azerbaijani Red Crescent Society supported Azerbaijani government narratives. The OCCRP investigation lasted more than a year, and was based on data about ICRC convoys ‘provided by inside sources’, as well as interviews and on-the-ground reporting, according to its author R

People packing their belongings into a car before leaving Stepanakert. Photo: Marut Vanyan

Armenia

‘If I had wings, I would fly away’: Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians seek evacuation

by Ani Avetisyan

•8 min read

Following Nagorno-Karabakh’s surrender to Azerbaijan, much of the region’s Armenian population is scrambling to leave for Armenia. Thousands have already left, driven both by fears of what an Azerbaijani government might do to them, and by a refusal to live under Azerbaijani rule. ‘We’re at home now, waiting to see if anyone will get us out or if they will leave us here to die’, said Zvart Shirinyan, in a voice message sent on Friday evening. It remained unclear what awaited Zvart, 29, her

The Azerbaijani checkpoint at the entrance to the Lachin Corridor. Photo: Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan.

Armenia–Azerbaijan Conflict

Lachin Corridor remains closed despite ‘rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation’

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•4 min read

The Lachin Corridor, connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, remains blocked by Azerbaijan, as the region continues to grapple with supply shortages amid calls for its reopening. Nagorno-Karabakh has been under blockade since December last year and has experienced increasingly severe food, medicine, and energy shortages since. The Red Cross and the Russian peacekeeping mission stationed in Nagorno-Karabakh have been unable to deliver supplies and humanitarian aid since June. Stepanakert anno

A Russian Red Cross lorry in Azerbaijan. Photo: Azertac

Aghdam

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

A Russian peacekeeper base inside the Lachin Corridor in 2022. Photo: Ani Avetisyan/OC Media

Armenia

Tensions rise between Armenia and Russia as officials trade accusations

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Already tense relations between Armenia and Russia have grown more heated in recent days, after Armenia sent its first delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine, withdrew its representative from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), and announced joint military exercises with the US. On Tuesday, Armenian media reported that the country’s government had sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine for the first time since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The delivery of ai

A child washing their hands at a water station in Stepanakert. Photo: Marut Vanyan/OC Media

Armenia

‘Bread is all we have’: Nagorno-Karabakh’s population faces threat of starvation

by Marut Vanyan

•6 min read

With Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor continuing, food and medical supplies in Nagorno-Karabakh are running out. The dwindling supplies have led some to warn that the region is entering the worst phase so far of the nine-month blockade. Larisa, 69, moved to Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital of Stepanakert following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, after Azerbaijan took control of Togh, her village in Hadrut region. ‘I have seen a lot of suffering’, Larisa tells OC Media. ‘My 1

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo accompanying the French humanitarian aid convoy to Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia

Azerbaijan summons French ambassador for sending humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•2 min read

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has summoned French Ambassador Anne Boillon and handed her a note of protest against her country for sending a humanitarian convoy to the Lachin Corridor. On Thursday, Baku accused Paris of interfering in Azerbaijan’s internal affairs and violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity by sending a humanitarian aid convoy to blockaded Nagorno-Karabakh. France had sent a convoy of 10 lorries to Nagorno-Karabakh — its second in less than a month. The convoy, a