![Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB3%20Republic%20Square%20Dem.jpg?itok=_kjjyGxq)
Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018 [photo by author].
![Photograph of the Biblical Mount Ararat.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/sb4%20mount%20ararat.jpg?itok=UrAs7ptD)
Photograph of the Biblical Mount Ararat, a symbol of Armenian national and spiritual identity [photo by author].
![Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/sb6%20republic%20square%20dem.jpg?itok=rwxbHese)
Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018 [photo by author].
![Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/SB7%20Republic%20Square%20Dem.jpg?itok=PLELArwB)
Demonstrations at Republic Square in August 2018 [photo by author].
![Stone carvings of the Armenian alphabet.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5%20armenian%20alphabet.jpg?itok=NTguRqSR)
![Russian troops capturing Erivan fortress in 1827.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/6%20capture%20of%20erivan.jpg?itok=PkM2HSKO)
![Anastas Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin, and Grigori Ordzhonikidze.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/8%20caucasian%20clique.jpg?itok=U88bjXw8)
![Demonstrators in Yerevan calling on the Soviet Union to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/9%20genocide%20demonstrations.jpg?itok=F-kHikHT)
![A 1994 map showing the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the wider conflict area.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/10%20nagorno-karabakh%20conflict.jpg?itok=pIXr5VJ4)
![The December 1991 signing of the agreement to eliminate the USSR.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/15%20belavezha%20accords.jpg?itok=lkrw8fpJ)
![Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian President Robert Kocharyan.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/18%20putin%20and%20kocharyan.jpeg?itok=kBn_8bSY)
![A poster featuring Armenian revolutionary leader and now Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/21%20nikol%20pashinyan.jpg?itok=KBgJDJl3)
A poster featuring Armenian revolutionary leader and now Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in 2018 [photo by author].
![Protests following the 2008 presidential election at the Opera Square in Yerevan.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/22%20presidential%20protests.jpg?itok=WjDnnjAt)
![Celebrations after the September 21, 1991 referendum declaring Armenia’s independence.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ef50ecaf-0083-4d73-90a7-d353d8f9b132_0.jpg?itok=eOU8VtbT)
![Demonstration at Republic Square, Yerevan.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_0.jpg?itok=k5vsFMIA)
Demonstration at Republic Square, Yerevan, August 17, 2018 [photo by author].
![Location of Nagorno-Karabakh highlighted within the post-Soviet Caucasus.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/04_0.png?itok=Siw_cleT)
Location of Nagorno-Karabakh highlighted within the post-Soviet Caucasus [map by author based on 1995 CIA ethnolinguistic map of the Caucasus].
![Karabakh Committee member Ashot Manucharyan on the left with Ashot Dabaghyan.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06_0.jpg?itok=lT5mc3kY)
Karabakh Committee member Ashot Manucharyan on the left with Ashot Dabaghyan on the right (left) [image courtesy of Bagrat Dabaghyan].