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The self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh – internationally recognized as Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region – is facing probably the most difficult period in its 32-year history. Baku seems determined, one way or another, to establish full control over the territory where ethnic Armenians make up the majority of the population, although they refuse to reintegrate into Azerbaijan.

Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have decided to ration bread in the capital Stepanakert to cope with a serious shortage of flour resulting from Azerbaijan’s nine-month blockade of the Lachin corridor.

The Lachin Corridor has been agreed as a link between Armenia and Artsakh and has no alternative, the Foreign Ministry.

Armenians from Stepanakert and other regions of Artsakh have come to town of Askeran to block any trucks from Azerbaijan carrying humanitarian aid from entering the country.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have set up a tent camp on a road leading to the Azerbaijani town of Aghdam to prevent the delivery of Azerbaijan humanitarian aid which they say is aimed at legitimizing Baku’s blockade of the Lachin corridor.

The 44-day war in 2020 between Azerbaijan and Armenia ended the long-lasting occupation of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and opened new opportunities for the reintegration of Armenians living in Karabakh into Azerbaijan and durable peace in the region - writes Shahmar Hajiyev and Talya İşcan. Unfortunately, during consultations and peace talks between the Armenian […]

Photo: UN Security Council meeting on the Lachin Corridor, YouTube/United Nations

Residents of Armenian enclave believe Azerbaijan’s plan is clear: to starve them into submission

Armenia became the world’s first Christian state around 300 AD when St. Gregory converted the king at the time to Christianity. A core province of the kingdom was Artsakh, now better known as Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region home to a millennia-old Armenian Christian community.

Armenia cried wolf over the Lachin Border Crossing and the Lachin Border, but failed to impress representatives in the UN Security Council.