Vyacheslav Bejanov shuns cameras, eschews interviews. He does not want publicity - the Udi community he belongs to has been on and off under the spotlight of journalists he feels have manipulated them, NGOs using them to attract funding for projects which soon evaporate.

“If you came to listen to our stories and tell them to the world, you are wasting your time, no one remembers us,” he dismisses.

Yet, soon the initial distrust melts and Vyachislav starts to tell.

“My parents were Udis, they used to live in Vartashen [now Oghuz] in northern Azerbaijan. After the Sumgayit massacre of February 1988, my family, with many Christian and Armenian-speaking Udis, moved to Armenia. We have been living here for 29 years, but we are forgotten, not recognized by anyone,” he laments.