South Ossetia: What’s next, Nagorno-Karabakh or Nakhchivan?
Writing for Global Voices Online, Vilhelm Konnader points readers in the direction of Michael J. Totten’s Middle East Journal where a parallel between the Russian-Georgian conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is made with the fear of renewed fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Just as I’m ready to board a plane for Azerbaijan in the former Soviet Caucasus region, Russia invades South Ossetia in Georgia next door.
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The whole area is a big mess. Chechnya, of course, is the most notorious part of the Caucasus region, but all these countries are dysfunctionally wrapped up in each others’ business.
Azerbaijan has its own “South Ossetia.” The region known as Nagorno-Karabakh is a self-proclaimed independent republic carved out of the middle of Azerbaijan by the Armenian military and ethnically-cleansed of Azeris. No country on earth recognizes the sovereignty or legitimacy of Nagorno-Karabakh except for Armenia.
- Published:
- 08.10.08 / 11pm by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Blogs, Georgia, Global Voices, Military, Nagorno Karabakh, News Briefs, Opinion, Russia
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