Nagorno-Karabakh 2011

“At the end of a matter ask, ‘what will I learn from this to make me better?’” I should have listened to Tigran. Tigran always knew best. Or maybe I should have listened to the signs. But I don’t like ‘signs’. I hate superstition and detest self-fulfilling prophecies (and bad excuses).…

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The Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh isn’t on your world map. It’s not on Google Maps. It doesn’t actually exist. Karabakh falls into the confused league of self-declared yet internationally unrecognised independent states, along with others: Abkhazia, Transnistria, Somaliland, and the slightly better-known South Ossetia. Until recently, Kosovo was such an entity.