By Ani Avetisyan The Armenian government announced that it will give Karabakh Armenians refugee status and Armenian citizenship if requested. Karabakh Armenians, however, thought that they were already Armenian citizens as they hold passports from the Republic of Armenia. The whole population of post-war Nagorno-Karabakh, over 100,000 Armenians fled the region in late September, following Azerbaijan’s nine-month-long blockade and the September 19 attack. “The government’s position has always been that the people living there are not Armenian citizens. Now, if they are not citizens, then they must have some status. In this case, it is refugee status”, Artyom Sujyan, adviser […]