The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a full committee hearing on 14 September 2023.

Entitled “Assessing the Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh,” with official testimony from one witness:

RSC “MASTER CLASS”
WEEKLY CERTIFICATE-BASED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM
Every Wednesday
19:00-21:00
Holiday Inn Express Hotel
97/2 Buzand Street

On Wednesday, 6 September, our think tank, the Regional Studies Center (RSC), launched our new weekly professional training program, held every Wednesday evening from 19:00-21:00 at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel in Yerevan.

Richard Giragosian, the head of Yerevan-based Regional Studies Center, presented an assessment of U.S. policy in the South Caucasus at an international symposium on Russia organized by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in Yerevan on 4 July 2023. The session was recorded by Civilnet.

The Regional Studies Center (RSC) hosted an insightful discussion on 27 March with visiting Professor Cengiz Aktar as a special guest speaker, offering his insightful analysis of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey and providing a comprehensive overview of the longer history of Armenia-Turkey relations since Armenian independence, as well as addressing the specific role of Azerbaijan in the process.

Following a staff visit to Turkey, the Regional Studies Center (RSC) convened its latest monthly analytical briefing on 1 March, with a focus on recent developments related to Armenia-Turkey “normalization” and “earthquake diplomacy.”  The briefing also offered an assessment of the Azerbaijani-imposed siege of Nagorno Karabakh, the state of diplomacy between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and broader issues of Armenian-Russian relations and Western (EU and US) engagement in the region.  RSC staff, including RSC Research Fellow Emily Babakanian Frazier and Project Manager Zara Sahakyan, coordinated the briefing by RSC Director Richard Giragosian.  Project partners from CivilNet and the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) working with the RSC on Armenia-Turkey normalization were also present.