After a long blockade – then a lightening-fast offensive – the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh finally fell to Azerbaijan. And this week tens of thousands of refugees have fled over the border into neighbouring Armenia.
The Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, Andrew Roth, was at the border speaking to the people evacuating. One woman told him it was the third time she had had to flee, and how heartbroken she was to have to abandon not just her home, but the place her son was buried. Roth explains the long roots of the conflict and its wider significance.
Michael Safi hears how the tensions over Nagorno Karabakh has flared up many times for over a century. Time and again Russia, the regional power, has used its power to damp it down. Yet now that Russia is distracted by the war in Ukraine, has the balance of power in the area shifted? And what does all this mean for those living there?
Photograph: Vasily Krestyaninov/AP
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