When major combat broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh in early April, RFE/RL’s Armenian and Azerbaijani Services—unlike any other news media—provided live reporting from the front lines of the conflict in both languages. RFE/RL engaged audiences with both sides of the story, which resonated with its audience and paid major dividends in viewership. The Armenian Service’s video coverage received nearly 7 million combined views on Facebook, YouTube, and the web; an Armenian Service cameraman in Nagorno-Karabakh also captured video, used by The Washington Post and The Jerusalem Post, of what could be the first use of an Israeli-made Harop “suicide drone” in combat.
RFE/RL covers both sides of conflict