Will Armenians and Azerbaijanis be able to live together and treat each other as equals, or will they remain enemies, trying to solve the conflict by force? Important decisions are usually made by governments and politicians, but, often, a lot depends on the position of the ordinary citizens, especially when...
Although the Armenian and Azerbaijani societies live in isolation from each other, in the unrecognized Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) there is a very small group of Armenians who communicate with Azerbaijanis almost every day – at work.
The Tbilisi-Gyumri-Kars railway remains closed, and with it the opportunities for communication between Armenians and Turks, as well as Azerbaijanis. In his blog, Armenian journalist Alexander Martirosyan reflects on how the second Karabakh war ended up closing communication routes and the difficulty of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Since the 2020 war, Azerbaijani internally displaced persons from Karabakh have been expecting an early return to their homeland. But before they had time to rejoice at this prospect, they found themselves face to face with uncertainty. When will they return home and how?
The Trajectories project invited people from both sides of the Karabakh conflict to share their memories of Sunday 27 September, when the second Karabakh war began. These are three stories from Azerbaijan and there are three stories from Armenia in the Trajectories project as well.
The Trajectories project invited people from both sides of the Karabakh conflict to tell what Sunday 27 September 2020 when the second Karabakh war began was like for them. These three stories are from the Armenian side. There are also stories of the inhabitants of Azerbaijan in the “Trajectories” project.
Colonel Mekhak Arzumanyan, Head of the Emergency Situations Service of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, told his stories to the “Trajectories” project. He is one of the rescuers who, since November 13, 2020, have been participating in the search for the bodies of servicemen who died in the second Karabakh war.
The author of this blog who prefers to remain anonymous resides in Stepanakert (in Azerbaijan the city is called Khankendi). They had been living there until the second Karabakh war (September 27 – November 10, 2020), left it for a short time during the war but came back and continue...
The nearest place to Baku and Yerevan where Armenians and Azerbaijanis can be friends is Tbilisi. Bakuvian Rakhila has been living here for 8 years, and her circle of contacts consists mostly of Armenians. But how to make friends with those whom you were taught, as a child, to see...
