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NAGORNY KARABAKH: SMALL WAR, SERIOUS TROUBLES: THE ECONOMIST

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20. ARMINFO. Arrive in Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, and nothing suggests it is a war zone, British newspaper “The Economists” writes in the article “Nagorny Karabakh; small war, serious troubles” – a deep-frozen conflict continues to infect the region”.

The streets are clean, public buildings refurbished, there is a good hospital, a television studio, casinos, hotels and even a fitness club. The road that links Karabakh to Armenia may be the best maintained in the Caucasus. “In the opinion of the Armenians of Nagorny Karabakh, they have won this war for separation from Azerbaijan, which began at the beginning of 1990s and took the life of 25,000 people. They have their own president, flag and small army”, the newspaper writes. “This problem is solved – editor of the local newspaper “Demo” Gegham Baghdasarian says, the people has made its choice and protected it”. But the war is not completed for Azerbaijan, the newspaper writes. Ten years have passed after signing the cease-fire agreement, but thousands of Azerbaijani and Armenian servicemen look at each other with binoculars. Not only Karabakh, but seven other Azerbaijani regions, or 14 per cents of the territory of the country, are occupied by Armenians.

“The blockade of the borders made against Armenia by Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey has turned the country into a dead remote place. There is not air, car and railway communication between the two former soviet neighbors. Azerbaijan has made so that the new oil pipe line from the Caspian sea to the Mediterranean” Sea passed round Armenia. Despite the well-being of Stepanakert, the life of Karabakh Armenians is not easy, Their republic remains unrecognized. It is more like the continuation of Armenia than an independent state. The army of Karabakh is entirely integrated with the Armenian one, the currency is the Armenian dram.

Analyst from the International Crisis Group Philippe Nobel says that the resumption of the war is improbable. But both states are using the continuing confrontation to suit their own ends, undermining the democracy in both countries.

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