Stepanakert’s Freedom Fighters’ Avenue. Image courtesy of Baykar Sepoyan via Wikimedia.

Stepanakert’s Freedom Fighters’ Avenue. Image courtesy of Baykar Sepoyan via Wikimedia.

“A Postcard from Nagorno Karabakh” for Ohio State University

ByEmil Sanamyan

“Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective,” a publication at the Ohio State University, has recently featured “A Postcard from Nagorno Karabakh,” a detailed and well-illustrated background on Karabakh, its present and history, prepared by Pietro Shakarian, a PhD candidate in Russian History at OSU.

For the “postcard” Shakarian drew on his personal travel in Karabakh and published research, including two items by Focus on Karabakh: a partial literature review on origins of the place-name Karabakh and an interview with a prominent commentator on Caucasus topics.