Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English photojournalist currently based in in Damascus, Syria, and working for clients such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Marie Claire and...
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on 27 October 2011
On the 2nd of September this year, Nagorno Karabakh celebrated 20
years of independence, yet remains unrecognized by the
international community. Life is not easy in the republic. There is
high unemployment, low salaries, few opportunities and the young
continue to leave in search of better futures abroad.
To combat this Nagorno Karabakh's de facto government introduced the "birth encouragement program" which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby born, with the aim of repopulating the region after the devastating 1991-1994 war in which Nagorno Karabakh's ethnic Armenians went to war with Azerbaijan, backed by neighboring Armenia. The war left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and a further 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced.
In this video Anastasia Taylor-Lind gives us a look at the program and the people of this little know republic.
To combat this Nagorno Karabakh's de facto government introduced the "birth encouragement program" which distributes cash payments to newlyweds for each baby born, with the aim of repopulating the region after the devastating 1991-1994 war in which Nagorno Karabakh's ethnic Armenians went to war with Azerbaijan, backed by neighboring Armenia. The war left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and a further 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced.
In this video Anastasia Taylor-Lind gives us a look at the program and the people of this little know republic.