Village glitch
2025
In September 2023, the entire Armenian population of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) was forcibly displaced, resulting in the ethnic cleansing of over 120,000 people. The event received little global attention and was followed by a greenwashing campaign, as the COP29 environmental summit was scheduled to take place near this region with no mention of the recent violence. Alongside the physical loss came digital erasure: the names of Armenian villages vanished from online maps, place markers were altered, and websites of cultural institutions disappeared.