In 1923, the Soviet Union established the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast—home to a 95 percent ethnically Armenian population—within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Nagorno ...

The NKR was born out of a civic movement that started in 1988 with the aim of establishing Armenian control over the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), which was then part of Soviet Azerbaijan ...

Rebuilding Karabakh The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast was part of Soviet Azerbaijan, but its population was about 75 percent ethnic Armenian.

Prior to rising to the Soviet premiership, Joseph Stalin had gerrymandered borders to rip Nagorno-Karabakh away from Armenia, but it remained an autonomous “oblast” within Azerbaijan, with its ...

Read More: The U.S. Keeps Failing Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh It’s important to understand the stakes of this kind of cultural erasure: These monuments and stones testify to the generations of ...

Nearly half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population has fled to Armenia, with many thousands more still scrambling to evacuate, a week after the breakaway region surrendered following a lightning ...

First, it is crucial to recognize that Nagorno-Karabakh (a short name for the former “Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region”) is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, a fact ...

Aliyev raises the Azerbaijani flag outside the building that until last month housed the de facto Karabakh government (President.az) Azerbaijan's president traveled to the former de facto capital of ...

In 1923, the Soviet Union established the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast—home to a 95 percent ethnically Armenian population—within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Nagorno-Karabakh’s ...

In 1923, the Soviet Union established the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast—home to a 95 percent ethnically Armenian population—within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Nagorno ...