February 2018 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh movement: on February 20, 1988, it was decided to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.<\/p>\n
But what was to begin in February was generally not felt in the press of the day. It was in 1987 that a general petition began in Karabakh and Armenia, with the demand to return Nagorno Karabakh to the Armenian SSR. The January 1, 1988 issue of then-published newspaper Sovetakan Karabakh<\/em> (Soviet Karabakh) continued to preach internationalism and cover Communist Party meetings \u2014 with \u201cCommunists are on the frontline,\u201d \u201cInternationalism is our strength,\u201d and other such headlines.<\/p>\n The front page features General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev\u2019s New Year\u2019s message to the Soviet people.<\/p>\n Anahit Danielyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 2018 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh movement: on February 20, 1988, it was decided to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia. But what was to begin in February was generally not felt in the press of the day. It was in 1987 that a general petition began in Karabakh and Armenia, Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","author_posts-anahit-danielyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}