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	Nagorno-Karabakh war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There has been speculation that this was a complotted attempt in accordance to the theory of "divide and rule": enrage the populace of both countries in the future in which Russia would then play a major role in not only meddling but manipulating them in its favor.
		In the ensuing months following the capture of Khojaly, Stepanakert was continuously shelled by Azeri forces in the nearby town of Shusha by the notoriously inaccurate BM-21 GRAD mobile artillery platform, the successor variant to the World War II-era "Katyusha".
		By the height of the siege in April 1992, the population of Stepanakert, once 70,000, had declined to 50,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_war (4217 words)

	Samizdat 2000
		It is dusk and the residents of Nagorno Karabakh are washing their cars in the river that runs beneath the small capital city of Stepanakert; cows are being driven downhill from the surrounding pastures for the night.
		The evidence for that war is everywhere — in the devastated town of Shushi in the hills above Stepanakert and along the plain that separates Karabakh from Azeri territory.
		However, the law enforcement agencies in Stepanakert laid the blame for organizing the attack squarely at the door of Babayan.
	www.antiwar.com /stone/pf/pf-stone063000.html (1726 words)

	STEPANAKERT
		Stepanakert (aserbaidschanisch: Xankändi, alte Umschrift: Chankendi) ist die Hauptstadt von Bergkarabach, eines zwischen Armenien und Aserbaidschan umstrittenen Gebiets.
		Stepanakert liegt in einer Region, die mehrheitlich (ca.
		Im Jahre 1988 forderte das Regionalparlament von Stepanakert den Anschluss an Amenien, woraufhin es zu Pogromen gegen Armenier in Aserbaidschan kam und ein militärischer Konflikt ausbrach.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/S/Stepanakert (130 words)

	Stepanakert - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nestled in a bowl of mountains, Stepanakert is the capital of Nagorno Karabakh.
		Vache Yepremian said the idea of building a church in Stepanakert occurred during his talks with Archbishop of Artsakh Parghev Martirossian; he was surprised to learn that there was no church in Stepanakert.
		Stepanakert became sister cities with Montebello, California in 2005.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Stepanakert_Town (955 words)

	Stone Garden Productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stepanakert is the capital of Karabagh, and all travel times listed here are by private car from Stepanakert unless stated otherwise.
		Stepanakert is a small town, and travelers who enjoy walking will find that the best way to see this town is by foot.
		The distance from Stepanakert is only about 133 km, but the poor and often unpaved roads extend the travel time to about four hours.
	www.stonegardenproductions.com /pages/karabagh_sightseeing.htm (2470 words)

	The War of 1991-1994
		On September 2, in Stepanakert a joint session of the Nagorno Karabakh Regional Council and the Governing Council of the Shahumian district took place where it was agreed that in line with the wishes of all peoples within the boundaries of Nagorno Karabakh and the Shahoumian Region the Nagorno Karabakh Republic would be proclaimed.
		The Azeri-populated villages, surrounding Stepanakert, were turned into large military bases from which by means of artillery guns the capital of the republic was being methodically destroyed.
		The height of strategic importance near the village of Shelly in the Agdam district, from where the populated places of the Asceran district and the town of Stepanakert were subjected to the sustained intensive artillery bombardment by shelling, passed under the Karabakh forces control.
	nkr.am /eng/history/voina.htm (5219 words)

	Discover Azerbaijan
		Stepanakert was daily targeted by up to 400 missiles and suffered largely unheard as Sarajevo held the world in thrall.
		During the war, the Azerbaijanis were initially supported by Russian 4th Army troops, Turkish trainers and latterly, by Afghani Mujahadin, who referred insultingly to the fighters of Karabakh as `asphalt fedayeen': fighters lately come down from the mountains to fight for towns and villages.
		The Karabakhis have steadily developed the apparatus of statehood: government ministries scattered around Stepanakert with neat nameplates in English, Russian and Armenian; passports and entry visas; a parliament with 33 democratically elected representatives; and there is even a Miss Artsakh beauty competition - bathing costumes and all - every April in the Palace of Youth.
	www.geocities.com /master8885/Forces/combat.html (2037 words)

	Shushi - Armeniapedia.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Shushi is unavoidable en route to Stepanakert via the Lachin corridor.
		Stepanakert and surrounding areas were barraged with bombs from this vantage above the surrounding plains until it was finally captured.
		The damage to Stepanakert during the war is mostly repaired, but the extensive damage to Shushi is mostly still apparent and you can explore these ruins which are so odd to see interspersed among occupied homes and businesses.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Shushi_Town (883 words)

	Asia Times: Attack on Karabakh president raises tension in Armenia
		Investigators in the Karabakh capital Stepanakert announced on March 27 that the botched attempt five days earlier to assassinate Arkadii Ghukasian, president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, was planned and carried out by persons close to Samvel Babayan, the enclave's former army commander and defense minister.
		Senior officials in Stepanakert and the Armenian capital Yerevan say that the motives for the attack on Ghukasian are to be sought in the local political situation.
		Meanwhile, the circumstances of the attack, specifically the use of automatic rifles against a moving target, raise the question of whether the intention was in fact to eliminate Ghukasian or simply to create a pretext for neutralizing Babayan.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/BD05Ag01.html (645 words)

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		Whilst I had a bout of intense stomach badness, Briony visited Stepanakert Rehabilitation Centre where she was highly impressed with the people, facilities and aims of the organization (the centre works with physically and mentally disabled people from throughout the region).
		Stepanakert, that have traditionally been inhabited by an Armenian population.
		On our return to Stepanakert, we drove through Aghdam, formerly the largest Azerbaijani city in the Artsakh region and presently a pile of rubble.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3010634&postID=110593325121037516 (850 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Common states in Karabagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On Stepanakert's main Azatamartikneri ("Partisans") Street, there are stores displaying fresh fruit and cheeses, alongside the odd restaurant and a new discotheque.
		Stepanakert is the capital of Karabagh, a small region in the Caucasus covering 4,388 square kilometres and home to around 120,000 Armenians.
		And it is this sense that renewed conflict is both imminent and inevitable that explains the pessimism with which most Karabaghis view the myriad building sites and "rehabilitations" that are sprouting up around them.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/415/in5.htm (923 words)

	BHHRG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Stepanakert polling station No. 6, a school in the city, there was a war memorial with 128 portraits of the dead from that school alone.
		A joint statement was adopted at an unofficial meeting of the non-government organizations of Nagorno Karabakh, aimed at discussing the internal political situation in the NKR and the issue of the Karabakh conflict settlement.
		The Nagorno Karabakh Committee of “Helsinki Initiative-92”, the Stepanakert Press Club, the NK Institute of Public Diplomacy, the “Young Democrats” organization, the “Tradition” Center, the Public Development Fund and a number of other Karabakh NGOs welcome the efforts and intentions of the international community to transform and resolve the Karabakh conflict.
	www.bhhrg.org /CountryReport.asp?ChapterID=220&CountryID=2&ReportID=75&keyword= (1114 words)

	The Fulcrum that Could Rock Russia and Iran
		But, walking through the shell-shattered, lifeless streets of Stepanakert on a bitter January morning, Dzhangirian contemplated the blockade that was draining the city’s food supplies-including the winter stores he and his wife had put up in their garage last fall.
		Stepanakert residents line up near midnight to collect water from a hose connected to one of the city’s few water pumps, The pump is driven by a diesel generator and serves a Karabakh military facility in the city.
		A Stepanakert woman shouts in anger over a rocket attack, displaying a cook pot shredded by shrapnel from a shell that landed in her home.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF1501/Rupert/Rupert.html (2565 words)

	Asbarez Online - July 29, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		STEPANAKERT (Caucasus Reporting Service)—Mountainous Karabagh is experiencing an unusually lively election campaign for the mayor of its main city, Stepanakert.
		Agabekian says he will fight for "the supremacy of the law" in Stepanakert, before which "everyone ought to be equal, irrespective of their social position, merits and party allegiance", suggesting he will, if elected, be an independent mayor.
		Despite the lively campaign and assurances from the central electoral commission, many Stepanakert voters are wary of the candidates and their promises and believe the outcome is all but predetermined.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/2004/040729.htm (1617 words)

	Nagorno-Karabakh Searching for a Solution: Peaceworks: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Clearly, Walker said, Baku made the decision at the beginning of the negotiating process to treat the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as an interstate one, in which Azerbaijan was the victim of a war of aggression and subsequent occupation by a foreign power.
		In addition, Stepanakert was able to allow Yerevan to carry the burden of negotiating without having to justify any compromises to its own people.
		What blocked the agreement in the end was the Stepanakert leadership’s determination that the risks of compromise were not worth the gains, based on the conviction that their position would not weaken over time despite the oil revenues that are expected to be flowing into Baku in a few years.
	www.usip.org /pubs/peaceworks/pwks25/chap3_25.html (3071 words)

	The limits of leadership: elites and societies in the Nagorny Karabakh peace process
		The Stepanakert authorities believe that the negotiations process can only become effective once the NKR has been properly incorporated into it; after all, it is the Karabakh authorities that are in a position to make decisions on issues of key interest to Azerbaijan, such as territory and refugees.
		For the Karabakh Armenians, the absence of a sober assessment of the current situation on the part of Azerbaijan is the key barrier to progress in resolving the conflict.
		Stepanakert diplomatically states that meetings between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are viewed with “the necessary understanding”.
	www.c-r.org /accord/nk/accord17/05.shtml (1733 words)

	BHHRG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the count at Stepanakert No. 4 there was an unusually large number of disqualified ballots — 55 from a turn-out of 600.
		Frequently votes were invalidated because the voter had circled the name of the candidate rather than ticked the box, or had crossed out all the other candidates (as was the norm in the past) leaving a blank space for the clearly preferred candidate.
		Votes marked ‘against all’ were a significant percentage, indicating a level of dissatisfaction with all the political actors in Karabakh, but the absence of a plausible rival to Ghoukasian.
	www.bhhrg.org /CountryReport.asp?ChapterID=219&CountryID=2&ReportID=75&keyword= (1624 words)

	Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net - STEPANAKERT IS INTERESTED IN THE MONITORING OF SECURITY ZONES
		Up to now in all the discussed project of conflict resolution this region was given a special status to provide Stepanakert with mechanisms of formal and informal control over that strategic territory.
		Official Stepanakert is interested in the efficiency of this mission.
		Yet two years ago the President of Nagorno-Karabakh applied to the European Council and OSCE and called them to send on a mission a special monitoring group and to check the situation on the spot.
	www.panarmenian.net /details/eng/?id=479&date=2005-02-01 (822 words)

	··· Azeri Genocide ···
		She was of the same attitude together with me. She did not want to give permission for landing to planes coming from Yerevan, and for that reason they blew her house up and murdered her son.
		As soon as he returned to Stepanakert her was murdered in front of his house.
		Both in Stepanakert and Yerevan I did not run into a young man, who was unemployed.
	www.azerigenocide.org /news/rarakel.htm (2253 words)

	Stone Garden Productions - Travel Updates for Armenia and Karabagh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Until recently, Stepanakert was the only place in Karabagh where a tourist could find comfortable hotel accommodations.
		You might be able to make an advance reservation by calling from Yerevan, but this really isn’t necessary for a hotel unless you need several rooms for a large group.
		A more comfortable alternative in the remote areas might be to stay with a local family and to leave them a few dollars as a gift.
	www.stonegardenproductions.com /pages/KarabaghHotels.html (933 words)

	Armenian History: History of Artsakh Province - part 3
		In October of 1990, the Azeri militia blockaded the airport in Stepanakert suburb of Hodjallu, which definitely isolated Artsakh from Armenia.
		After the elimination of Azeri bridgeheads near Stepanakert, the liberation of Khodjalu became the primary task, as the Azeri forces concentrated in this large village considerable manpower and military equipment.
		Some 40,000 refugees fled to Stepanakert, while small groups of the Shahumian fighters led by Shahen Meghryan were trying to penetrate into the occupied areas to wage guerrilla warfare.
	www.armenianhistory.info /artsakh3.htm (1671 words)

	Daily News \| ECONOMY & SOCIETY: NEW CHURCH WILL BUILD IN STEPANAKERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On September 15, the base of the St. Hakob (Iakov) Church was sanctifies in the Hekimian Street, Stepanakert.
		Archbishop Pargev Martirosian noted that the benefactor's brother Hakob, after whom the church would be named, died in a young age, and the benefactor believed that the construction of a church for the Artsakh people would be the best remembrance of his brother.
		According to Vache Yefremian, the idea of building a church in Stepanakert appeared during his talks with leader of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, archbishop Pargev Martirosian.
	www.nkrusa.org /news/daily_news.php?id=366 (353 words)

	Nagorno Karabakh - Azerbaijan - Azerb.com
		The Armenians have steadily developed the apparatus of statehood: government ministries scattered around Stepanakert with neat nameplates in English, Russian and Armenian; passports and entry visas; a parliament with 33 democratically elected representatives; and there is even a Miss Artsakh beauty competition - bathing costumes and all - every April in the Palace of Youth.
		The last passenger plane to fly into Stepanakert airport was shot down by the Azeri forces (the airport is near Khodjaly).
		Due to the present military situation, to visit Xankandi you need to go via Armenia (this is quite easy, but see the visas section for details on the bureaucracy).
	www.travel-images.com /az-karabakh.html (983 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Armenia Official Site
		In other words, it has been proposed that the planning of the production of flour and the regulation of the quality of bread, and altogether the management of the production of bread for Stepanakert all be controlled in distant Aghdam.
		The low level of work in the field of education is particularly evident in the results of tests taken by our students in order to gain entrance to the higher educational institutions of Armenian SSR.
		The two-year Pedagogical Institute and the Conservatory of Stepanakert is a notable cultural achievement, but it has been instituted at the cost of relinquishing the Armenian Theater in Baku - in spite of the fact that there is a large contingent of Armenians in Baku.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /fr/nk/nk_file/article/27.html (2079 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight
		The symbols of Karabakh, built on a hill just outside Stepanakert in the late 1960s, are the two giant stone heads of an Armenian grandmother and grandfather.
		The atmosphere of Stepanakert is like a village, with the odd cafe frequented by no more than a handful of people; ask for "juice" and you will be served a bottle of Turkish cola.
		However, a representative of an international organization in Stepanakert, who keeps a low profile so as not to damage the trust he has built up with the Karabakh, Armenian, and Azeri authorities, told me that the situation was not so bad.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav072100.shtml (2130 words)

	Stone Garden Productions - Language and People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Stepanakert, the Telecom Post is located on the upper part of Vazgen Sargsian (Yerevanian) Street.
		If you are in Armenia, you can place a call to Stepanakert, Karabagh by using the country code 8-89322, followed by the local five-digit telephone number.
		The rate for letters to the US in 2001 is 250 dram (about 50 cents), and the rate for a post card is 170 dram (about 35 cents).
	www.stonegardenproductions.com /pages/karabaghpracticalities.html (973 words)

	Vahakni - HyeForum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Stepanakert it is the buildings of public importance that are more often hired and in regions -- lands for agricultural aims.
		Stepanakert is leading in number of mortgaged the real estate.
		Stepanakert is leading with the highest prices for real estate.
	www.hyeforum.com /index.php?showtopic=9872&view=getlastpost (340 words)

	Asbarez Online - August 14, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		STEPANAKERT, MKR--Over 5000 supporters joined the 300 participants of the Eighth ARF Youth and Student Association World Jamboree at a gala celebration marking the end of the 10-day youth program, reported the ARF Central Youth Office.
		The group then moved on to the MKR capital, Stepanakert, where Mountainous Karabagh Republic Cultural, Sport and Youth Minister Armen Sarkissian, MKR office of Repopulation Director Serjig Amirkhanian, ARF Mountainous Karabagh Central Committee Chairman Vahan Badasyan and ARF Bureau Member Albert Ajemian, greeted and addressed the group at the MKR Youth Affairs Building.
		The closing ceremonies for the Jamboree began at 8:00PM, as Stepanakert residents began to gather for an evening of speeches, music and a special presentation by the Jamboree participants.
	www.asbarez.com /aol/2003/030814.htm (2038 words)

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