This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society. I'm John Batcher visiting with Michael Jan after too long a break, but Michael's been moving and

Now he's in Yerevan, Armenia. This is the capital of a state that is the what is remaining of the Soviet Empire

There are a number of them along the frontier of the Soviet of

The former Soviet state now the Russian Federation one of them, of course is Ukraine another is

Georgia

Michael's in the South Caucasus in Armenia the conflict

recently as recently as

December November December of

2020 is not resolved

It's over territory Nagorno-Karabakh a province of Azerbaijan during the Soviet days

that was annexed by

Armenia at the

close of the Soviet Empire and

Are Azerbaijan and Armenia been in dispute there's a front line. There's a trench warfare there

There are readouts. I've visited all of them. I've never been into Nagorno-Karabakh

I was there at the end of the war in 2020

during the worst of the pandemic

This is a very serious dispute in the South Caucasus which is

Famous legendary for disputes. This is the Caucasus

They are very beautiful land up and down with

With a lot of hostility towards your neighbor

The conflict in 2020 was between Azerbaijan and Armenia, but that also means between Azerbaijan and Turkey versus Armenia and Russia

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