In the first of two lectures for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered as assessment on 30 June focusing on “Western Engagement in the South Caucasus.” The lecture in Yerevan was part of the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Followed a related RSC Focus Group, RSC Director Richard Giragosian convened a monthly briefing on 29 May, offering a specific assessment of Armenia’s post-war strategy of “diversification,” with a related focus on Armenia’s broader reassertion of independence and sovereignty.

As a regular series of activities, the Regional Studies Center (RSC) convened its latest Focus Group on 27 May, with a discussion focused on “Armenia’s New Post-War Strategy” that included an interactive review of the aftermath from the Armenian defeat in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and the subsequent loss of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) in 2023.

In an online webinar organized by the German ZOiS Caucasus Network, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered a presentation entitled, “Armenia on the way to Europe?”

The Regional Studies Center (RSC) released a brief two-page RSC Policy Note on 7 March 2025, entitled “The U.S. Policy Shift on Aid to Ukraine: Implications for the Baltic States,” focused on the dramatic and confrontational policy toward Ukraine.