Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

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Shoghakat Vardanyan standing in front of a picture of her brother, Soghomon Vardanyan. Film still.

Armenia

Armenia’s National Film Academy snubs award-winning Nagorno-Karabakh documentary

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

A decision by Armenia’s national film academy to nominate a film by one of its board members to the Oscars over an award-winning documentary centred on the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War has caused controversy in the country. Produced in 2023, Shoghakat Vardanyan’s debut feature documentary 1489 focuses on her family’s two-year search to find her brother, Soghomon Vardanyan, a conscript who went missing during the first days of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. The title refers to the number assigne

Armenia

The ‘Black Garden’ becomes ‘a black corner’ for Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenians

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•9 min read

One year has passed since the exodus of practically the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh. OC Media reconnected with refugees interviewed in the immediate aftermath to hear how they are a year on. On 19 September 2023, Azerbaijan launched its last large-scale military offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh, calling it an ‘anti-terrorist operation’. Days later, the region came under the full control of Azerbaijan. Armenians living in the region had not expected such an outcome, continuing to wait

Armenia

Kamala Harris expresses support for Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians’ right to return

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

US Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris has called for the right to return of displaced Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. Harris made her statement on Monday as part of a letter to the American-Armenian community marking Armenian Independence Day, celebrated annually on 21 September. ‘The right for Armenians displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh to return safely to their homes is vital to restoring dignity to the Armenian people and stability to the region’, read the le

Armenia

Podcast | ‘A year of uncertainty’ since Nagorno-Karabakh’s surrender

by OC Media

•2 min read

It has been a year since Nagorno-Karabakh’s surrender and dissolution following an Azerbaijani assault on the region. The assault pushed the vast majority of the region’s population to flee their homes and to seek refuge in Armenia, where they were met with bureaucratic hurdles and insufficient support from the Armenian government. This week, we spoke with Tigran Grigoryan, a political analyst and the head of the Regional Center for Democracy and Security, about Armenia’s

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

Armenia

Yerevan warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ as Nagorno-Karabakh government-in-exile debate rages

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•2 min read

A row between the Armenian Government and former officials from Nagorno-Karabakh is continuing over attempts to form a government-in-exile out of Yerevan. On Monday, the leader of Ardarutyun, a political party from Nagorno-Karabakh, told RFE/RL that anyone who opposed the continued functioning of Nagorno-Karabakh’s state institutions supported the ‘destruction of Artsakh’s [Nagorno-Karabakh’s] statehood.’ Similarly, in a thinly veiled attack on the Armenian Government last week, a group of

Vagif Khachaturyan in court. Photo: Trend.az

Armenia

Azerbaijani court sentences Armenian man to 15 years for war crimes

by Ismi Aghayev

•1 min read

The Baku Military Court has sentenced Vagif Khachatryan, an ethnic Armenian from Nagorno-Karabakh, to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Khachatryan was accused of taking part in a massacre of Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Meshali, near Khojali, charges he denied. A 1992 report by the Russian human rights group, Memorial, cited ‘severe violence against the civilian population’ in Meshali by ethnic Armenian forces on 22 December 1991.