ABSTRACT
Azerbaijan has no Russian troops or military bases. Russia is friendly with Armenia. (The USA has banned aid since 1992, when Azerbaijan imposed an economic blockade on Armenia: IHT, 3 March 2000, p. 15. The US Freedom Support Act restricts US trade and investment in Azerbaijan: IHT, Survey, 5 June 2000, p. 12.)
Karabakh means ‘black garden’ (The Economist, 8 November 1997, p. 135). Nagorno means ‘mountainous’. The ancient name for Nagorno-Karabakh was ‘Artsakh’.
