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Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh sends 100,000 refugees to Armenia and threatens the stability of the young democracy

On September 19, Azerbaijan invaded the ethnically Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh and subsequently incorporated the area into its territory. The conflict has driven over 100,000 people to flee to Armenia within a month, causing significant political division in the former Soviet state, which had previously been one of the world’s leading nations in terms of democratic progress over the past decade.