Discover the human cost of conflict in the South Caucasus

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...

"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....

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...

As a result of the second Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 2020, and an “anti-terrorist operation” by the Azerbaijani army in 2023, territories that had been under the control of the Armenian army for more than 30 years returned to Azerbaijan. After that, Azerbaijanis from the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region and seven adjacent districts...

Armenia’s labor market has always been small, but recently the demand for vacancies has increased due to the large-scale influx of Russians and citizens of India into the country. And since September last year, more than 100 thousand residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have joined them. If those who moved from Russia are mostly provided...

“Our childhood was spent in the mountains and forests. My friends and I often climbed steep cliffs and spent days on the highest points of Lachin. Even now I remember how proudly we used to look at the city from these heights. For hours we would stare as if we...