The areas around the formerly occupied Azerbaijani districts have long been regarded as some of the most heavily mined on earth.

The government predicts economic growth this year of 3.2 percent.

Baku is spending millions of dollars on infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions liberated during the war.

As the crown jewel of the Caucasus and Central Asian Tsarist Empire, it was a perfect place for the arts to flourish – a multi-ethnic land of not only Azeris but also Russians, Persians, Armenians, Georgians, Jews and many other ethnicities.