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The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh

Why a small mountainous territory has caused decades of conflict and displacement

As fighting flares again over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, we ask why it's so hard to resolve this conflict, and why a chunk of Armenian-controlled territory came to be inside Azerbaijan in the first place. 麻豆社 Russian editor Famil Ismailov is originally from Azerbaijan, and has followed this story for decades.

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Picture: Elderly woman in Nagorno Karabakh
Credit: European Photopress Agency

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