Thomas de Waal is a writer and scholar on the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, and Black Sea and the author of four books on the region, including authoritative works on the Armenia-Azerbaijan and Chechnya conflicts. He is a senior fellow with the think-tank Carnegie Europe, based in London.
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Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, spell the end the Soviet Uni... SEE MORE