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ConIFA European Cup to be held in Nagorno-Karabakh

21 August 2018 by OC Media

Players from Nagorno-Karabakh (right) during a past ConIFA tour­na­ment (conifa.org)

The Con­fed­er­a­tion of Inde­pen­dent Football Asso­ci­a­tions (ConIFA) announced on 19 August that Nagorno-Karabakh would host its 2019 European Football Cup. It promised to specify soon the exact June dates and other details of the tour­na­ment, which will be held in capital Stepanakert.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: artsakh, Azerbaijan, championship, conifa, fifa, football, khankandi, nagorno-karabakh, sport, stepanakert, xankəndi

Young men in Nagorno-Karabakh remain defiant in the face of war

11 June 2018 by Anahit Danielyan

Vachagan’s notes from the 2016 war (Anahit Danielyan /OC Media)

Two years on from the April 2016 war, which caused the deaths of hundreds and a loss of territory, Nagorno-Karabakh’s youth are more deter­mined than ever to stay in their homeland and build a future there. Gal­vanised by their recent expe­ri­ence of war, young men living close to the frontline talk of what the April events meant for them and how they remain ever vigilant of another outbreak of fighting.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: april war, Armenia, artsakh, Azerbaijan, four-day war, martuni, nagorno-karabakh, nagorno-karabakh war, stepanakert

State minister and security chiefs resign after protests in Nagorno-Karabakh

7 June 2018 by OC Media

From left to right: Kamo Agha­janyan, Arayik Haru­tyun­yan, Arshavir Gharamyan

Nagorno-Karabakh’s state minister, director and deputy director of the National Security Service, and chief of police have resigned, in the wake of protests in the capital Stepanakert over the weekend. Protests were triggered by reports that police stood by as members of the security services beat up two civilians. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Bako Sahakyan, nagorno-karabakh, protest, Ruben Melikyan, stepanakert

Protests hit Nagorno-Karabakh after security forces ‘beat up two’

4 June 2018 by OC Media

(Artsakh Press)

Protests erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital Stepanakert over the weekend after two men were allegedly beaten up by a group of members of the National Security Service. Pro­test­ers were initially demanding the alleged attackers be pros­e­cut­ed, but these demands have now extended to the dis­missals of the heads of all law enforce­ment and security agencies, excluding the Defence Army. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Bako Sahakyan, nagorno-karabakh, protest, Ruben Melikyan, stepanakert

Armenian woman ‘forcibly detained and abused’ by Stepanakert Police

27 March 2018 by OC Media

Asya Khacha­tryan (Epress)

An Armenian citizen has claimed that police in Stepanakert ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly abused’ her during multiple ‘illegal deten­tions’ in Stepanakert, allegedly because she smoked and because of the way she looked. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abuse, Armenia, police, stepanakert, violence, women, women's rights

Analysis | Total war: Karabakh’s militarised social democracy

19 January 2018 by Aleksey S. Antimonov

A poster in central Stepanakert (Khachig Joukha­jian /OC Media)

Aleksey S. Antimonov is a freelance jour­nal­ist based in Armenia.

With its flat rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, Nagorno-Karabakh has been described by some as a Caucasian Tiger. In addition, money from abroad funds a generous, but mil­i­taris­tic social welfare system — combining to keep and grow its border villages, and swell the army’s ranks.

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Filed Under: Opinion & Analysis Tagged With: artsakh, azerabaijan, border, economy, line of contact, militarisation, nagorno-karabakh, nagorno-karabakh war, nagorny karabakh, social democracy, stepanakert, talish

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