Descending Upon Nakhichevan

What’s going on in Nakhichevan? It worries me. Not the at-best-misleading “news” (several weeks ago) emanating from Azerbaijan that they took control of territory that had been in Armenian hands. Even if that were true, it would be an insignificant blip, and, it’s not true.
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Nakhijevan Remains the Quietest Stretch of Armenian-Azerbaijani Frontline: Emil Sanamyan

Since 1994, the major frontline escalations would often occur in Tavush rather than in Nagorno Karabakh.

CivilNet’s Tatul Hakobyan interviews Emil Sanamyan, a Washington-based specialist on Karabakh and editor of the Focus on Karabakh news site, a project of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies.

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Scottish Scientist Stephen Sim Describing His Trip to Nakhichevan

Scottish scientist Stephen Sim described the unpleasant experience of his visit to Nakhichevan, the historical Armenian territory now occupied by Azerbaijan.

Since Sim’s accusatory report of 2006 was not adequately covered in the international media, in this article, Harut Sassounian presented some important points from the Scottish scientist’s report.
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Half of Nakhijevan population migrates in search of work

Official data about the population of Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic is inflated twice, and the statements that there is no unemployment in the autonomy seem funny to any resident of the region, Commented Yashar Bagyrsoy the Chairman of the Department of Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan in the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic in the publication on statistical data concerning the situation in the republic.
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Nakhijevan: Turkish-Azerbaijani Discrepancies

The recent developments in the South Caucasus round the number of key issues sidelined not less important problems of the region, among which the developments around the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic (NA) and the involvement of the external powers, and firstly Turkey, can be mentioned. Continue reading “Nakhijevan: Turkish-Azerbaijani Discrepancies”