Stories

Without Wings tells the powerful story of women who have been displaced from Nagorny Karabakh and are now raising their children on their own.

Mass grave, missing persons “I told myself that he would never give up, he couldn’t be captured or killed, he would surely come back. I believed that he was alive until the very day his remains were brought back…” Rahila Atamoglanova waited 30 years for her husband, Abulfat Atamoglanov, who...

The Stepanakert Drama Theatre played an essential role in preserving national identity during Soviet times. It served as a cultural center not only for Armenians in Artsakh but also for Armenians throughout Soviet Azerbaijan. Here, people could hear Armenian and attend Armenian performances.

Cover photo by Marut Vanyan The Artsakh blockade began in December 2022 and lasted until the latest war in September 2023. During this time, the people of Artsakh faced many challenges: food shortages, lack of heating due to rolling blackouts and gas disconnections, and constant security threats. These hardships will...

"If Bashkend is given to the Armenians, it’s the end for us. We make our living here, and these places will no longer be safe,” says 53-year-old Vali (last name not provided), a resident of the village of Shynykh in the Gedabek district. He engages in animal husbandry in neighboring Bashkend....

After the loss of Artsakh, every family carries a taboo topic—words that are never uttered. It’s not because of any explicit agreements or decisions but because everyone knows that a single word could break them. People have barely managed to pull themselves back together after shattering into a thousand pieces....

This is one of the abandoned sanatoriums located in the Pirshagi settlement on the periphery of Baku. In 1992, during the first Karabakh War, many forcibly displaced people from Khojaly settled here in one-bedroom cottage-type houses. The sanatorium is situated on the shores of the Caspian Sea. However, the sea...

Last year, in late 2023, the protracted conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which spanned decades, finally reached its resolution. Armenians and Azerbaijanis represent the two largest ethnic communities residing in Georgia, following the Georgians themselves. As per the 2014 census data, Azerbaijanis constitute 6.2 percent of Georgia’s populace, while Armenians account for 4.55 percent.

Armenia is again faced with the problem of accepting refugees — thousands of people who have lost everything they had. The story began in the late ’80s of the last century. Since the beginning of the Karabakh conflict, more than 500 thousand Armenians were forced to leave Azerbaijan. Some of the refugees resettled...