Conflict Between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Main geopolitical “Players” in the Region By: Tamari Zuroshvili. Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies Nika Chitadze. Director of the Center for International Studies Historic overview During the consideration the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it is well-known that it was the first conflict which started on the post-soviet space in the beginning of 1988 when the council of Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous district declared about its separation from Azerbaijan soviet socialist republic and joining the Armenian soviet socialist republic. Ethnical clashes which started in the autonomous district of Azerbaijan later transferred to the inter-state conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a result of the integration of USSR and taking into consideration the fact that in 1994 Armenia-Nagorno-Karabakh forces managed to establish control over the 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan. Particularly, control was established