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Tom Videlo is a British photojournalist who fell in love with the South Caucasus before ever visiting. He has documented everything from conflict to international trade but feels most at home in a sm
Samantha Boghosyan laughs while her friend and fellow dancer Anita Kagramanyan adjusts her costume during the filming of a dance video in the hills above Goris. Tom Videlo/OC Media.
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In Pictures | Life in limbo at the Hotel Goris

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As the clock hits nine on a fresh winter morning, fish swim lazily in a small aquarium in the reception of the Hotel Goris as a group of men stroll past, heading outside for their first cigarette of the day. There isn’t much to do other than smoke and drink for those stranded here, victims of the blockade of the Lachin Corridor by Azerbaijani ‘eco-activists’. Azerbaijan maintains the protests blocking the road are not a blockade.  The corridor is Nagorno-Karabakh’s sole connection to Armenia,