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Why you shouldn t care about Nagorno-Karabakh (and why you might one day have to)

Posted on February 05, 2008

A while back I started a series on frozen conflicts in the former USSR. The first two (on Transnistria) can be found here and here. I was planning to do them in order from least bad to worst (which would put South Ossetia next) but decided to jump ahead a bit to Nagorno-Karabakh.What the heck is Nagorno-Karabakh, anyway?Briefly: it s a small, mountainous territory in the Caucasus, about the size of a small US state or a large British county. Until the USSR collapsed, it was part of Azerbaijan. But the population was mostly Armenians. So there was a vicious little war in the early...

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