The South Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Make a table for the three states: independence date, first president, main conflict.
Georgia – 9.04.1991, Z. Gamsakhurdia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Armenia – 21.09.1991, L. Ter-Petrosyan, Karabakh; Azerbaijan – 18.10.1991, A. Mutalibov (first president), Karabakh.
2
Write one or two sentences on each of three stages of the Karabakh conflict (1988–1994, 2020, 2023).
1988–1994: war and ceasefire; 2020: the 44-day war and a Russian-brokered agreement; 2023: the Azerbaijani operation, departure of the population, dissolution of the entity in early 2024.
3
How have Georgia’s relations with the European Union developed? Write the facts you know.
An association agreement was signed in 2014, visa-free travel began in 2017; candidate status was granted in December 2023; since 2024 the process has slowed because of domestic political disputes.
4
List the ethnic problems in the South Caucasus states (at least three) with one sentence on each.
Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenian–Azerbaijani), Abkhazia (Georgian–Abkhaz), South Ossetia (Georgian–Ossetian); each produced many refugees.