Podcast / Europe & Central Asia 08 October 2020 1 minute What’s Behind the Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Olesya Vartanyan, Crisis Group’s senior South Caucasus analyst, opens up about how the recent flare-up in Nagorno-Karabakh is affecting her personally. It could be the “big war” between Armenia and Azerbaijan that everyone was dreading would happen. Share Facebook Twitter Email Linkedin Whatsapp Save Print This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob and Naz question the efficacy of international sanctions, as the European Union wields this overused tool against Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. They are then joined by Olesya Vartanyan, Crisis Group’s senior South Caucasus analyst, for a very personal conversation about the toll the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh has taken on her friends on both sides as well as analysis of the role played by Turkey, Russia, and other external actors in the conflict. Click here to listen on iTunes or Spotify. Further reading: De-escalating the New Nagorno-Karabakh War Digging out of Deadlock in Nagorno-Karabakh Nagorno-Karabakh’s Gathering War Clouds The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer Related Tags More for you Commentary / Europe & Central Asia Armenia Struggles to Cope with Exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh Op-Ed / Europe & Central Asia Armenia Under the Gun Originally published in Foreign Affairs