Artsakh is a place where Armenians asserted their right to live: New York Times

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.''