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Death of the Armenian dream in Nagorno-Karabakh was predictable but not inevitable

  • Written by Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
imageRefugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.Middle East Images /AFP via Getty Images)

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be...

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