* Italicised by I. Bremmer and R. Taras.
1. I. Bremmer and R. Taras, (eds.), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, Cambridge University Press, 1993, preface, p.xxi.
2. The estimation by the State Statistical Board of Azerbaijan Republic, 1 November 1996.
3. S.F. Jones, Georgia: A Failed Democratic Transition, in I. Bremmer and R. Taras, (eds.), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, p.289.
4. Hurriyet, the Turkish newspaper, 4 March 1997.
5. G.A. Bournoutian, The Ethnic Composition and the Socio-Economic Condition of Eastern Armenia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, in Ronald G. Suny (ed.), Transcaucasia, Nationalism, and Social Change. Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, The University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp.77-80.
6. Ibid, p.78.
7. Ibid, pp.79-80.
8. B.A. Anderson and B.D. Silver, Population Redistribution and the Ethnic Balance in Transcaucasia, in R.G. Suny (ed.), Transcaucasia, Nationalism, and Social Change. Essays in the History of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, p.503.
9. Zerkalo Mirovoi Pressy, the Independent Armenian Newspaper, No 13 (20), 11-17 April, 1991, Ronald G. Suni, “Sosedi po Kavkazu” (Neighbours in the Caucasus), p.4; S.F. Jones, Georgia: A Failed Democratic Transition, in I. Bremmer and R. Taras, (eds.), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, p.289.
10. B.A. Anderson and B.D. Silver, p.489.
11. For comparison, Russian Federation has about 100 minority groups.
12. R.G. Suni, The Emergence of Political Society in Georgia, in R.G. Suny (ed.), p.113.
13. Perepis’ naseleniia Rossiiskoi Imperii 1897 g., v.62, from Audrey Altstadt, The Azerbaijani Bourgeoisie and the Cultural-Enlightenment Movement in Baku: First Steps Toward Nationalism, in Ronald G. Suny (ed.), p.199.
14. R.G. Suni, The Emergence of Political Society in Georgia, p.112.
15. Ibid, pp.114-115.
16. S.Maksimov, Russkiia gory i kavkazskie gortsy, 1873, p.56, from R.G. Suni, The Emergence of Political Society in Georgia, in R.G. Suny (ed.), p.115.
17. Tadeusz Swietochowski, National Consciousness and Political Orientations in Azerbaijan, 1905-1920, in R.G. Suni (ed.), pp.214-215.
18. Ibid, pp.216, 223-224.
19. Ibid, p.224.
20. Azärbayçan, No 12, 20 April 1990, “Azerbaidzhanskaia Demokraticheskaia Respublika” (by Prof. Ziya Buniatov).
21. S.F. Jones, Georgian-Armenian Relations in 1918 to 1920 and 1991 to 1994: A Comparison, in R.G. Suni (ed.), pp.441-460.
22. Vestnik ANS, December 1990 (an experimental edition), p.3.
23. Vestnik ANS, No 1, December 1990, p.4.
24. The 1956 and 1978 demonstrations in Tbilisi, the 1986 events in Alma-Ata and the 1987 sitting demonstration of the Crimean Tatars in Moscow carried rather anti-Moscow character.
25. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, ‘Karabakh: komu eto vygodno?’, pp.36-37.
26. A.S.Griboedov, Zapiski o pereselenii armian iz Persii v nashi oblasti. 1828, (Notes on the Re-settlement of Armenians from Persia in Our Provinces) in Sochineniia v 2 tomakh, vol.2, Moscow, 1971, p.314.
27. N.I.Shavrov, Novaia ugroza russkomu delu v Zakavkaz’e, St.-Petersburg, 1911, p.60, from Chiraq, No.1, 1989, p.39.
28. Thirty six percent of Armenia’s population. See Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.38.
29. Azärbayçan, No 12, 20 April 1990, ‘O putiakh resheniia problemy Nagornogo Karabakha’, p.8.
30. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.38.
31. I.Aliev, Nagornyi Karabakh: istoriia, fakty, khronika, Baku, 1990.
32. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.44.
33. For example, the prominent Soviet dissident, academician Andrei Sakharov up to his death in 1989 remained convinced of the fairness of the Armenian claims on NKAO. Sakharov’s delusion was formed under the strong influence of Elena Bonner (Alikhanian), the half-Armenian wife of Sakharov, and Galina Starovoitova, the Armenian lobby in the Russian parliament and the scholar of nationalism who, in fact, made serious errors in her works. On Sakharov’s misunderstanding of the NKAO problem, see the Shorthand Report of the meeting of A.Sakharov, E.Bonner, G.Starovoitova at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan in 1988, in Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.61-64; see also Vestnik Gruzii, the Information Journal of the Georgian Helsinki Group, No. 1, October 1989, the letter of Zviad Gamsakhurdia to A.Sakharov, pp.46-47.
34. On the Kavburo meeting see I.Aliev. Masterly manipulating with the words, the Armenians intended to create a favourable psychological environment to cause Gorbachev’s sympathy.
35. The Central Party Archive (Moscow), fund 461, list 1, doc.45252, p.1, from Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.38.
36. Molodiezh Azerbaidzhana, 14 July 1988.
37. Elm, No. 41, 1989, p.2.
38. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, p.41.
39. On the Armenian re-settlement in Transcaucasia see G.A. Bournoutian, N.I Shavrov, A.S. Griboedov.
40. See the map of “Great Armenia” in Tntsaget, the newspaper of Yerevan Institute of Economics, No 32-33 (437-438), 3 November 1989, p.8.
41. According to the UNHCR, there are 1,126,372 displaced people in Azerbaijan - 894,737 forced migrants (internally displaced people) and 231,635 refugees (190,356 from Armenia). According to the estimation of the official Azerbaijani Commission for the refugees, there are 194,443 refugees (40,686 families) from Armenia.
42. Azärbayçan, 8 November 1989, ‘Po sledam odnogo vystupleniia’ (by Tofiq Asadullaev).
43. Uzbek President on Resolving Nagorno-Karabakh Issue, RFE/RL Newsline Vol 1, No. 57, Part I, 20 June, 1997.
44. The Georgian Messenger, an Independent Newspaper of the Popular Front of Georgia, No 1, October 1-10, 1990, p.3.
45. New Revelations on Russian Arms Shipments to Armenia, RFE/RL Newsline Vol 1, No. 3, Part I, 3 April, 1997.
46. Leningradskaya Pravda, the Statement of Leningrad Popular Front, 13 February 1990.
47. See Atmoda “Awakening” (January-February 1990 issues).
48. ‘The Indissoluble Union of the Free Republics’ - the first line of the Soviet anthem.
49. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, ‘Nuzhen li Narodnyi Front Azerbaidzana’, p.2.
50. Letopis', the Information Journal of the Helsinki Group of Georgia, No 1, 1987, pp.3-4; Molodezh' Gruzii, 10 September 1987.
51. Azärbayçan, No 9-10 (21-22), 7 April 1990, the letter of B.Adygezalov, the Head of the State Committee for Environment of Azerbaijan, to F.Nezhdanova, the Head of the State Committee for Environment of the USSR (16 November 1988).
52. Chiraq, No 1, 1989, ‘Nuzhen li Narodnyi Front Azerbaidzana’, p.3.
53. Ibid, p.2.
54. The period of Brezhnev's rule had acquired the name zastoi (stagnation).
55. Informatsionnyi Listok AOD, No 1, August 1989.
56. S.F. Jones, Georgia: A Failed Democratic Transition, in I. Bremmer and R. Taras, (eds.), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, p.292.
57. Sovetskaya Abkhazia, No 119 (18266), 22 June 1989, p.1.
58. Zapiski Jamal-Pashi. 1913-1919, the edition of Zakraikom PKP(b), Tiflis, 1923, in Azärbayçan, No 18 (30), 25 May 1990.
59. “Bugos Nubar Pasha, the Head of the Armenian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, accept[ed] in an official memorandum addressed to the French Foreign [Ministry] that between 600,000 to 700,000 Armenians were deplaced and 390,000 had reached their destinations in Aleppo, Baghdad, and Palestine”. See , http://www.access.ch/tuerkei/GRUPF/9soru.htm
60. This fact was admitted by a former KGB officer during the dialogue with the author in 1992.
61. Azadlyg, the newspaper of the APF, No 1, 18 January 1990, p.1.
62. The author is the eyewitness of the described events and the participant of the evacuation arrangements.
63. Azärbayçan, No 11 (23), 13 April 1990.
64. Azadlyg, No 7 (10), 25 August 1990; No 20 (22), 7 November 1990.
65. 88, the newspaper of the ANM, No 4, 20 June 1990, p.8.
66. S.F. Jones, p.297.