No need to apologize, plus, I think energy is always a political issue, though not always involving more than one country, much less countries at war.

I feel you did politicize this when editing your quote from the article, which prompted my response.

I am well aware Wikipedia is open to moderation abuse, but I stand by my use of it as a reference for the demographical distribution of population in that area.

For what it’s worth, I think this conflict is yet another leftover from the collapse of the Soviet empire and I suspect things may have turned out better for both sides if that enclave has been split into its own republic once the USSR no longer existed.