"For Azerbaijan the issue of Karabakh is a matter of ambition, for the Armenians of Karabakh, it is a matter of life or death."
Andrei Sakharov · 1988
Andrei Sakharov, on his return from a fact-finding visit to NKAO and Yerevan in late 1988.
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Andrei Sakharov
1988 · Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War