so hostilities involving nagorno-karabakh go back decades.aijan and armenia fought a six-year war that ended in a ceasefire in 1994. then in 2016, an outbreak of violence killed dozens of people during four days of fighting. and last year's conflict killed more than 5,000 people, including both soldiers and civilians. the conflict has regional implications, as well. russia has traditionally been an ally of armenia and has joined other world powers in calling for calm, while turkey is backing azerbaijan, and its foreign ministry says it will stand by baku. ♪ let's discuss all of this and introduce our panel. in yerevan, richard giragosian is joining us. he's the director of the regional studies center, that's an independent think tank focused on strategic research and policy analysis. in moscow, stanislav pritchin, who's a senior research fellow at the center for post-soviet studies. and from baku, we have farid shafiyev, who's the chairman of the center of analysis of international relations. thank you so much for speaking to us on "inside st