Writing for the Portuguese news magazine Expresso, correspondent Ana França covered the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh on 5 September, including an interview with RSC Director Richard Giragosian.
“Vive-se um cerco medieval” em Nagorno-Karabakh. Oito respostas para entender a grave crise humanitária no Cáucaso (“There is a medieval siege” in Nagorno-Karabakh. Eight answers to understand the serious humanitarian crisis in the Caucasus).
Conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the status of the Nagorno-Karabakh region did not begin this year or this century, but the Azerbaijani blockade of the Armenian region is causing the biggest food shortage crisis in history since the beginning of the conflict. Armenian-American Richard Giragosian, director of the Center for Regional Studies in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, explains what led to the latest riot and what could happen in the future to the enclave’s residents.