STEPANAKERT, NAGORNY KARABAKH, JUNE 2000

Outside the Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs - left to right Ashot Beglaryan, deputy press secretary and correspondent for the Armenian news agency Snark, Leonid Martirosyan, press secretary, and Albert Stepanyan, driver

The symbol of Karabakh is the giant heads of an Armenian grandmother and grandfather. Their bodies are in the ground and they can't be uprooted - the Azerbaijanis didn't understand this significance when the sculpture was built, according to the Armenians

Road-building near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Stepanakert itself has very good, newly-asphalted roads and the road from Yerevan is also in excellent condition thanks to funds raised by telemarathons in Los Angeles

Guiseppe Muffoletto, a logistician helping Medicins Sans Frontieres to implement their TB programme in Karabakh

Vagram Agadzhanyan, a journalist who was given a one-year prison sentence for an article about the Karabakh prime minister, and later had his punishment changed to a two-year suspended sentence after his Armenian colleagues campaigned for him. Just after he came out of prison his mother died and he was in the 40-day mourning period when I met him. He was wearing a baseball cap because his head was shaved in prison

Dashnaks outside their campaign headquarters for the 18th June parliamentary elections. Dashnaktsutyun is Armenia's oldest party and they have a reputation for being extreme nationalists

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