Caving in to Baku’s Pressures, OSCE Closes its Office in Yerevan
ASBAREZ Azerbaijan ousted the OSCE from Baku in 2015 YEREVAN–The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whose Minsk Group is tasked with mediating a [more >>>]
Month: August 2017
Karabakh: De-mining Continues Amid Rising Tension
By STEPHEN M. BLAND* EurasiaNet At 7 AM on a recent Monday morning, the staff of the HALO Trust gathered at their compound in Stepanakert, [more >>>]
Tensions High in Nagorno-Karabakh as Ceasefire Frays
By MICHAEL CRUICKSHANK* Conflict News High in the South Caucasus, the self-proclaimed state of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is not somewhere which the vast majority of [more >>>]
L’Artsakh, l’enclave arménienne qui édifie sa nation
Par FRÉDÉRIC CHEUTIN laprovence.com Depuis qu’il a fait sécession de l’Azerbaïdjan en 1991, le Haut-Karabagh lutte, jour après jour, pour son indépendance. Comme les précédentes, [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s Last Independent News Service to Stop Work
By ZULFUGAR AGAYEV Bloomberg Azerbaijan’s Turan agency, the country’s only remaining independent news service, said it’s suspending operations from Sept. 1 after its director was [more >>>]
Ancient settlement primed for flooding in Turkey
By DIEGO CUPOLO Deutsche Welle Crews have begun dynamiting Neolithic-era caves near Hasankeyf, Turkey. The early Mesopotamian settlement will soon be submerged by a hydroelectric [more >>>]
‘Rights of 1,809,000 People Violated Under Curfews’, says Rights Organization
BIA News Desk (bianet) The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) Documentation Center has issued a statement concerning the rights violation that have been occurring [more >>>]
Georgia Thwarts EU Engagement with Abkhazia
By JOSHUA KUCERA* EurasiaNet Two years ago, the European Union commissioned a senior diplomat to write the first-ever comprehensive report on human rights in Abkhazia. [more >>>]
What life is really like for teenagers on the front line. Living in limbo
By EMANUELE AMIGHETTI Photography © Emanuele Amighetti Huck magazine Emanuele Amighetti’s latest project, ‘Unrecognized Nation, Forgotten War’, explores the reality behind the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. [more >>>]
Favoritism Shears Competitors in Georgian Sheep Industry
By TSKRIALA SHERMADINI (Studio Monitor) With additional reporting in Jordan by Naima Chougui of ARIJ, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism. Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting [more >>>]