Since Azerbaijan banned international fact-finders from visiting Nakhichevan, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) employed remote sensing technologies in its pioneer investigation into cultural destruction. Yet remote restoration of Nakhichevan’s lost Armenian monuments or alternative measures of accountability fall short of unanimous approval. Armenian researcher Samvel Karapetyan, whose diligent documentation of remote medieval Armenian monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh has been dubbed "constructive ultra-nationalism," sees Azerbaijan’s destruction of Armenian monuments as an effort to neutralize Armenian "historical rights" or antiquity-derived political legitimacy in the region. A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones. Missing from the 522-page "Encyclopedia" are the 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate khachkars, and 22,000 tombstones that Ayvazyan had meticulously documented. Scottish researcher Steven Sim had traveled to post-Soviet Nakhichevan to assess the condition of the Armenian churches photographed earlier by Ayvazyan. Today, the scholar Argam Ayvazyan - like all those of Armenian ethnicity and background - is banned by Azerbaijan’s government from visiting his native Nakhichevan. It is not just Armenians who have been affected by Azerbaijan’s government-sanctioned destruction in Nakhichevan. Armenian lobby." These were the words used by Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev - successor to and son of KGB-leader-turned-President Heydar Aliyev - to describe reports of Djulfa’s destruction in an April 2006 speech. In fact, the Aliyev regime’s controversy-riddled diplomacy promotes Azerbaijan as a "land of tolerance." In 2012, the European Stability Initiative described Azerbaijan’s generous spending on lobbying and attempts to woo foreign allies as "caviar diplomacy." This petrodollar-funded campaign has entailed various donations, including cultural preservation grants of undisclosed sums to the Vatican

"Who knew," Ayvazyan tells Hyperallergic, "that the man who told me not to photograph churches would 30 years later launch their annihilation." Ayvazyan became increasingly cautious. The European Union is "concerned" over the latest ceasefire violations and the disruption of natural gas supply, Toivo Klaar, the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Armenian Service. Ethical or not, the UNESCO-Azerbaijan rapport has undoubtedly contributed to international silence over the destruction of Nakhichevan’s Armenian past

Each new argument of the anti-Armenian revisionism, writes Schnirelmann, "inflamed the imagination of the Azerbaijani authors." In 1975, for instance, a Soviet Azerbaijani construction project demolished the ancient Holy Trinity church, the site of Arab invaders’ mass burning of Armenian noblemen in 705 CE. These merchants’ legacies, documented in Sebouh Aslanian’s From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, include the legendary treasures of the "Adventure Prize" ship pirated in 1698 by celebrated outlaw Captain Kidd. Lamenting the loss of the monuments he so lovingly documented for decades, he decries the world’s silence

Simultaneously, Talibov has been unveiling mosques and statues honoring the ruling dynasty’s patriarch Heydar Aliyev. In 2013, President Aliyev was furious at Azerbaijan’s prolific "People’s Writer" - Akram Aylisli - for publishing a novel about Armenian suffering and antiquity. Azerbaijan’s right to victimhood too." Azerbaijan’s narrative includes Armenian aggression, ethnic cleansing, massacre in Khojaly, occupation, and anti-Azerbaijan propaganda spread by the well-connected Armenian Diaspora. The offending article was written by Taghizadh, 56, for the newspaper’s 6 November issue

The weather in the region is at freezing levels (hovering between -10-0° C, or 14-32º F.). In fact, all the civilians who did not leave their homes in territories which fell under Azerbaijan’s control were killed. In a wiretap recorded on June 3, 2009 at 14:13 hours, Mullah Muhammed asked for 1.2 million Turkish lira (some $780,000 at the exchange rate in effect at the time) from Büyükfırat, who was in Adana province. A Turkish prosecutor who had investigated Mullah Muhammed, a radical preacher who openly called for armed jihad, declared his support for Osama bin Laden and urged the beheading of Americans, listed the Baku-based Büyükfırat as a suspect in his investigation. When the wiretap was presented to Mullah Muhammed during questioning by the police, he denied having the conversation, while Büyükfırat claimed it was part of a business deal with his brother. Thus, they combine shootings and threats of the use of force with humanitarian issues like cutting off gas, mobile, and internet connections, or water, etc., to ruin the lives of those living in Artsakh. • On February 26, Armenian schoolchildren filmed a video of Azerbaijani armed forces threatening them and demanding they leave the village of Khramort in the Askeran region. The weather in the region is at freezing levels (hovering between -10-0° C, or 14-32º F.). Armenian culture has always had a precarious existence sandwiched between Russia and the Islamic spheres of Turkey and Iran. Nevertheless, many Armenian ruins - and a few renovated churches - do survive today across historical Armenia’s western regions in what is today Eastern Turkey. Similarly, a construction project completed in 2016 over the ruins of the hilltop castle Ernjak was promoted as "the restored Alinja fortress - the Machu-Picchu of Azerbaijan," with no reference to its deep Armenian past

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