The Hidden Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Russia brokered a cease-fire agreement in 2020 between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The two were engaged in a bloody six-week war, the deadliest in the region in decades. Conflict between the two countries has recently escalated again. Azerbaijan set up a blockade of the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, causing a shortage in food, medicine, and energy. The roughly 120,000 people who live there are at increasing risk of famine. To break down the situation, Ryan Grim is joined by freelance journalists Joshua Kucera, Lilit Shahverdyan, and Alison Tahmizian who cover the area.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Grimm, welcome to Deconstructed.
0:06.2	Today we're talking about the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
0:10.5	Just two years ago, the two countries were engaged in a 44-day war, which sort of ended
0:14.8	in late 2020 after the Russians broke a deal between them.
0:18.0	A breakthrough on the breakaway region's conflict after 10 hours of talks in Moscow.
0:23.9	The Russian Foreign Minister announced that Armenia and Azerbaijan had agreed to halt
0:28.1	fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:32.5	The deal comes after six weeks of relentless fighting.
0:35.8	It was first announced in a Facebook post by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian,
0:40.9	with a minute's confirmation came from Azerbaijan and Moscow.
0:45.7	But the struggle between the two countries is heating up again and it reached a new stage
0:48.8	on December 12th when there was news of a blockade of a major highway.
0:53.2	The road connects Armenia with the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
0:57.5	The blockade was purportedly being organized by environmental activists opposing mining
1:01.5	projects in the region.
1:03.0	Now that blockade is still going on today and more than a hundred thousand people are
1:07.2	cut off from the rest of the world living in a desperate situation that is getting almost
1:11.5	no attention.
1:12.5	And if you think it's a little odd that Azerbaijan and oil-rich autocracy is somehow allowing
1:17.4	its own version of the sunrise movement to blockade a city indefinitely, well, your
1:22.1	skepticism is well placed.
1:24.0	They're not environmentalists.
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