On the night of April 29 to April 30, 1991, USSR and Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military operation named “Ring” against the peaceful Armenian population of a great number of Armenian villages in Shushi, Martakert, Hadrout regions of NKAO, as well as many villages in Shahumyan region, Getashen sub-district and Armenia’s Noyemberyan, Goris, Ijevan and Shamshadin regions. The first targets of the operation were the Armenian villages of Getashen (nowadays Chaykend) and Martunashen (nowadays Gharabulagh) that were part of Soviet Azerbaijan’s Khanlar district (in 1989 the district announced its decision to be unified with the Shahumyan region).
The dramatic changes in Moscow and throughout Russia and the other Soviet Republics require appropri- ately dramatic changes in America's policies towards the Soviet Union. No longer can the Bush Administra- tion remain reluctant and begrudging in its support of Boris Yeltsin and other democratic reformers. No longer can the United States balk at recognizing that power and legitimacy have shifted to the Republics fi-om the central government of the U.S.S.R. Washington now must begin leading the international response to last week's dramatic events. Washington must tilt away fiom the Center-as the central Soviet government is known-and tilt toward the Republics. Washington must abandon its determination to preserve a unified U.S.S.R. and begin endorsing independence for the Republics. No longer must America warri the Republics, as George Bush did just a few weeks ago in Kiev, about "suicidal nationalism" and lecture the reformers that "freedom is not the same as
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