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New Armenia-Azerbaijan border - Journalist Tatul Hakobyan drove along the new Armenian-Azerbaijani border to speak with locals

IOM Azerbaijan officially handed over renovated Garaaghaj kahriz located in Mollajalilli village of Goygol district to the local community within the current IOM Project “Integrated Rural Development for IDP communities in Azerbaijan through Revitalization of Kahriz Water Supply System” financed

 In April - August 1991 Azerbaijan’s Special Purpose Police Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan (OMON) along with the Soviet Internal Security Forces (ISF) and army divisions organized and perpetrated a large-scale military operation named “Ring” (“Koltso”) deporting thousands from the Armenian villages located both in Artsakh and Armenia. The operation was carried out by a special scheme; Armenian villages were being surrounded by Soviet ISF and army divisions respectively, after which the OMON forces were breaking...

About 10 days ago, two Russian citizens were captured in Azerbaijan’s Chaykend village (Getashen village, occupied by Azerbaijan) located in the Goygol region.

On the night of April 29 to April 30, 1991, USSR and Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military operation named “Ring” against the peaceful Armenian population of a great number of Armenian villages in Shushi, Martakert, Hadrout regions of NKAO, as well as many villages in Shahumyan region, Getashen sub-district and Armenia’s Noyemberyan, Goris, Ijevan and Shamshadin regions. The first targets of the operation were the Armenian villages of Getashen (nowadays Chaykend) and Martunashen (nowadays Gharabulagh) that were part of Soviet Azerbaijan’s Khanlar di...