Sossi Tatikyan

1 month ago | evnreport.com | Sossi Tatikyan |Hranoush Dermoyan

Part I of this article summarized and analyzed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s escalating preconditions, accusations and threats against Armenia as expressed in his December 2024 and January 2025 interviews. These narratives underpin Baku’s coercion tactics against Armenia, aiming to justify its obstruction of the peace agreement, legitimize potential military offensives, and support its ambitions to become a regional hegemon.

Feb 27, 2024 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Sossi Tatikyan

Part I: Deception and Manipulation of the EU and the United States to Absorb Nagorno-KarabakhAzerbaijan has been using military and diplomatic coercion to achieve its maximalist, expansionist and hegemonistic objectives with regard to Armenia and Armenians. It also employs wide-ranging tools of hybrid war, such as historical revisionism, disinformation, lawfare and cognitive warfare. To achieve its objectives, Azerbaijan has been also deceiving and harassing international actors.

Oct 17, 2023 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Sossi Tatikyan

Azerbaijan’s plan of creeping ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) became explicit in March 2022, shortly after the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. It was clear that Azerbaijan was employing a combination of methods, including military offensives, the weaponization of gas, human rights abuses, and psychological warfare, to create unbearable livelihood conditions for Armenians in Artsakh. It was also evident that Russian “peacekeepers” were failing to protect them.

Aug 16, 2023 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Sossi Tatikyan

From Blockade to GenocideBased on the request of the de facto authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), Armenia has asked to convene a UN Security Council meeting to address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. The authorities of both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia have announced that Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh, constitute an attempt at ethnic cleansing and contains criteria of a genocide.

Aug 10, 2023 | evnreport.com | Anna Green |Sossi Tatikyan

Part I of this article addressed scenarios that Azerbaijan is trying to impose on the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), including a scheme similar to the evacuation of the Finns from Karelia in the 1940s, integration as a means of subjugation, cutting the link with Armenia to deprive ethnic identity, and denial of not only external but also internal self-determination. This article addresses the Holodomor-like deprivation of food as a weapon of subjugation and ethnic cleansing.