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Due to a lack of food for both people and animals, many people have let their pets out into the streets, which are empty due to fuel shortages. Photo: Marut Vanyan/OC Media
Armenia

Food shortages and fear as peacekeepers refused entry to Nagorno-Karabakh 

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Empty streets and increasing shortages of food and fuel have gripped Nagorno-Karabakh as it enters its seventh month under blockade, after Russian peacekeeper traffic was banned from entering and leaving the region. Local authorities announced on 4 July that sugar and sunflower oil rations would be provided only to families with children.  Stepanakert’s milk processing plant has also shut down due to a shortage of raw products from Armenia, with the main supplies of dairy products to Nagorno

Young men in Nagorno-Karabakh remain defiant in the face of war
2016 April War

Young men in Nagorno-Karabakh remain defiant in the face of war

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Two years on from the April 2016 war, which caused the deaths of hundreds and a loss of territory, Nagorno-Karabakh’s youth are more determined than ever to stay in their homeland and build a future there. Galvanised by their recent experience of war, young men living close to the frontline talk of what the April events meant for them and how they remain ever vigilant of another outbreak of fighting. If several years ago there still existed the hope that the Armenian and Azerbaijani side

Analysis | Total war: Karabakh’s militarised social democracy
Analysis

Analysis | Total war: Karabakh’s militarised social democracy

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With its flat rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, Nagorno-Karabakh has been described by some as a Caucasian Tiger. In addition, money from abroad funds a generous, but militaristic social welfare system — combining to keep and grow its border villages, and swell the army’s ranks. For three decades the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan has echoed with the crack of gunfire: the ceaseless noise of the oldest ‘frozen conflict’ in the former USSR. Yet for those living in Nago

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