Special envoy to Goris
It snowed all night and the road merges with the landscape.
A few Lada skate in the fog and the frost.
We pass the last village and its modest houses.
A little further, like an apparition, a herd of sheep is protected from wolves by mastiffs.
Shepherds say the Azeris rounded up several thousand head of cattle last fall.
The border is approaching and its drawing seems blurred.
A Russian peacekeeping vehicle drives in the opposite direction.
A few more icy bends and the checkpoint appears, a simple barrier levitating between two prefabs.
On the right, Armenian officials, whose flag flutters in the pristine landscape.
On the left, the police of the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, whose access has been blocked for a month by Azerbaijan, which calls it Nagorno-Karabakh.
Object of two wars since the fall of the USSR, this territory included by Stalin in the entity of Azerbaijan knows indeed…
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