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An ethnic Armenian soldier stands guard next to Nagorno-Karabakh's flag atop the hill near Charektar in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh at a new border with Kalbajar district turned over to Azerbaijan, on Nov. 25, 2020. Sergei Grits/AP Photo
Tensions between Baku and Yerevan have mounted in recent weeks over a Russia-patrolled land corridor linking Armenia to the next-door Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Although most of Nagorno-Karabakh’s roughly 120,000 inhabitants are ethnic Armenians, the region is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.