TV has the undeclared function of creating a parallel reality which helps the viewer perceive reality from a distance; a kind of detachment which helps the mind accept things as natural and ‘normal’. News of innocent death, wars, military conflicts are in the daily agenda of the broadcasters and are often both communicated and received without any contemplation of the actual meaning of what is being communicated.

In this nature, the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been often ‘ignored’ due to ‘more important’ events in the world while the armed conflict between the two countries continues to increase its death toll.

The situation in the Caucasus is now again a ‘hot topic’ in the news after the conflict escalated as 18 soldiers were killed in what media describe as “the worst clashes in two decades.”

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has proposed to holds talks with his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Aug. 8-9, Bloomberg reports. Azerbaijan has yet to agree to the negotiations, while Russia’s President Vladimir Putin plans separate meetings with the two leaders at the end of the week, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovt cited by ITAR-TASS.

The fighting in the past week in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been the deadliest since the two former Soviet states signed a cease-fire in 1994.

Armenians took over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave about the size of Rhode Island, and seven adjacent districts from Azerbaijan in a war after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. More than 30.000 people were killed and over a 1.2 million displaced before Russia brokered a cease-fire in 1994.

Nagorno-Karabakh remains internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. Four United Nations Security Council resolutions were passed demanding an Armenian withdrawal from Azeri territory adjoining Nagorno-Karabakh.

About 700.000 Azeris were forced to leave the districts, 200.000 Azeris left Armenia and more than 360.000 Armenians fled Azerbaijan.

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