Since the end of September, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has erupted again. Each of the parties involved has its own version of what happened, but the Azerbaijani military has been able to seize parts of Nagorno-Karabakh. For the time being, the Shushi town on the outskirts of Stepanakert (the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh) is under threat, and many viewers have expressed the view that its fall could also mean the loss of Stepanakert.
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TVNET journalist Jānis Vingris is still in the city, who admits that conquering it would create certain challenges for him in returning home. More on this in the report.
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Context: There have been hostile relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 1990s, when there was a war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian population.
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Nagorno-Karabakh, which was part of the Azerbaijani SSR during the Soviet era, has been a “de facto” independent Armenian republic since the early 1990s. Although Azerbaijan has not controlled Nagorno-Karabakh since the collapse of the USSR, it considers the Armenian region to be its territory. Nagorno-Karabakh is also considered by the international community to be part of Azerbaijan, and no country has recognized the region as an independent state.
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Jānis Vingra’s materials about the experience of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will soon be on the TVNET portal.
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