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In some ways, Caldwell, Idaho, reminds Shushanik Hayriyan of Sighnag, her village in Nagorno-Karabakh. The open fields and clear skies are reminiscent of the vistas on her family’s farm, some 6,000 miles away. Hayriyan was named after the highlands of Shushi where her parents met, a city now under Azerbaijani control following the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Of the over 100,000 Karabakhi Armenians forced to flee to Armenia last September, Hayriyan is one of thousands who managed to migrate onwards. While she pursues higher education in the United States, she tries not to be pessimistic about …