In a book entitled, “Unrewarding Crossroads? The Black Sea amidst the European Union and Russia,” published by the Sofia Platform, RSC Director Richard Giragosian contributed a chapter assessing the set of challenges and opportunities facing Armenia. The book, a project of the Sofia Platform financed by the German Marshall Fund’s Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, was edited by Anahit Shirinyan and Louisa Slavkova.
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In a follow-up to earlier RSC staff comments on the current status of the Nagorno Karabakh peace process, RSC Senior Analyst David Shahnazaryan added his assessment, focusing on how Azerbaijani attacks on the mediators themselves has triggered a serious shift in diplomacy.
.In a brief, concise interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, RSC Director Richard Giragosian explains the significance of the recent statement of the OSCE Minsk Group regarding the recent escalation of clashes and upsurge in fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and Nagorno Karabakh. Giragosian praised the reaction, which he defined as “seeking to send a stronger message to deter and dissuade Azerbaijan from its reckless disregard for diplomacy and its insistence in threatening not only Karabakh, nor Armenia, but the international community as a whole.”
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In a far-ranging interview with the “1in.am” electronic news agency on January 27, RSC Senior Analyst David Shanhazaryan assessed the recent clashes along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the flare-up of fighting, and offered an analysis of the current crisis in Armeian-Russian relations.
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RSC Director Richard Giragosian participated in a discussion of the recent escalation of clashes over Nagorno Karabakh and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in a roundtable organized by the Yerevan-based Media Center on January 26. Giragosian joined Armenian parliamentarian Tevan Poghosyan, Stepan Girgoryan, the head of the Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, and Shahin Rzayev, the Azerbaijan country director of the Baku office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).
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