Ronak trainee Syranush Sargsyan writes for Newsweek about her native Nagorno Karabakh a year after Azerbaijan blockaded the region. During the 10-month blockade, Sargsyan applied to the Tavitian Fellows program in Boston. “Living under siege, deprived of the bare essentials and free movement, even reaching the nearest settlement in nearby Armenia proper seemed impossible; how would I reach Boston?” recalls the Armenian journalist.
