ALL ABOUT ARMENIA AND ARTSAKH

Photo by Mariam Ghazaryan In August 1987, Karabakh Armenians sent a petition for union with Armenia with tens of thousands of signatures to Moscow. And there were many reasons for this...                                                                       1923 - 1988  THE COLONIAL POLICY OF SOVIET AZERBAIJAN AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE ARMENIANS OF ARTSAKH FOR THE REUNIFICATIN OF NKAR WITH THE SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA PART 1 From the very beginning of NKAR (Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast) formation the leaders of Azerbaijan defied the rights and interests of the Armenian population. The violation of rights was mainly evident the attempts of suspending artificially the social-economic growth of the region and making Nagorno Karabakh the raw material appendix of Azerbaijan. The authorities of Azerb...

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW... Artsakh known as Nagorno Karabakh, is an enigma wrapped up inside the Armenian Highlands falsely renamed "Caucasus". Having an extremely rugged mountainous surface covered by dense forests, it has some of the most beautiful landscape in the region. It is a ‘country’ recognized by no-one. Even the name is something of a mystery, being made up from words of three different languages:  nagorno  means mountainous in Russian,  kara  means black in Turkish and  bakh  means garden in Persian. The name “Mountainous Black Garden” was given to it because its forests are so dense it’s dark inside. This stunning Armenian region has over 5000-year old history. In its remote forests there are hundreds of hidden moss-covered Armenian monasteries, stone-crosses, witnesses of the true owners of this land. Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) had never been a part of the independent Republic of Azerbaijan neither in 1918-1920 (this is when Azerbaijan app...