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Artsakh is a place where Armenians asserted their right to live: New York Times
14:18, 22 September, 2012
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: New York Times dwelled on Nagorno
Karabakh glorious landscape and its story, reports Armenpress citing
NY Times. The author of the article wrote: ''Standing on a limestone
ridge in the foothills of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, I surveyed
the landscape that lay before me. To the west, illuminated by a
late-day sun and with ever more craggy peaks as a backdrop, was
Vankasar Mountain, capped by a solitary, ancient church. To the east,
yellow grassland and scrub stretched to the horizon. And then there
was the ghost city of Agdam, its thousands of ruined buildings
representing the last exchanges of a late 20th-century. Southern
Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh expecting a land of extremes.
Nagorno-Karabakh, is an ethnically Armenian enclave. Its tumultuous
recent history would affect any traveler, no doubt, but for me, the
experience of visiting this place had a personal dimension. My
grandmother had fled Anatolia as a girl, escaping an Armenian genocide
at the hands of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. To come to
Nagorno-Karabakh, a place where Armenians have asserted their right to
live , generated mixed emotions, to say the least. Though I had
become interested in the region because of my ethnic heritage, once I
started digging into the history of Nagorno-Karabakh, I wanted to
experience what was said to be a breathtaking landscape filled with
ancient monasteries, mountainous tableaus and hard-working people
trying to rebuild. So last spring I went there, accompanied by my
girlfriend. I didn't expect luxury hotels, haute cuisine or
air-conditioned buses, and I didn't find them. Instead, we stayed at
local homes where running water might not be guaranteed. In exchange
for the lack of amenities, I was hoping not just to understand more
about this little-known area, but also to understand more about my own
background.''
14:18, 22 September, 2012
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: New York Times dwelled on Nagorno
Karabakh glorious landscape and its story, reports Armenpress citing
NY Times. The author of the article wrote: ''Standing on a limestone
ridge in the foothills of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains, I surveyed
the landscape that lay before me. To the west, illuminated by a
late-day sun and with ever more craggy peaks as a backdrop, was
Vankasar Mountain, capped by a solitary, ancient church. To the east,
yellow grassland and scrub stretched to the horizon. And then there
was the ghost city of Agdam, its thousands of ruined buildings
representing the last exchanges of a late 20th-century. Southern
Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh expecting a land of extremes.
Nagorno-Karabakh, is an ethnically Armenian enclave. Its tumultuous
recent history would affect any traveler, no doubt, but for me, the
experience of visiting this place had a personal dimension. My
grandmother had fled Anatolia as a girl, escaping an Armenian genocide
at the hands of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. To come to
Nagorno-Karabakh, a place where Armenians have asserted their right to
live , generated mixed emotions, to say the least. Though I had
become interested in the region because of my ethnic heritage, once I
started digging into the history of Nagorno-Karabakh, I wanted to
experience what was said to be a breathtaking landscape filled with
ancient monasteries, mountainous tableaus and hard-working people
trying to rebuild. So last spring I went there, accompanied by my
girlfriend. I didn't expect luxury hotels, haute cuisine or
air-conditioned buses, and I didn't find them. Instead, we stayed at
local homes where running water might not be guaranteed. In exchange
for the lack of amenities, I was hoping not just to understand more
about this little-known area, but also to understand more about my own
background.''