Op-ed: US should reconsider its approach to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
By Tigran Grigoryan The Azerbaijani-imposed blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh has been in place for more than six months now. Baku’s siege of the landlocked de facto republic is near completion. With the...
View ArticleOp-ed: Yerevan municipal election is a double test for Armenia’s ruling party
By Karen Harutyunyan, Editor-in-chief Yerevan residents will elect a mayor on September 17. This will be the most important vote in Armenia until the 2026 parliamentary election. About 40 percent of...
View ArticleThe Nagorno-Karabakh deadlock: Explaining the problems with the Aghdam road
As the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh worsens day by day, Azerbaijan is sparing no effort to camouflage its brutal blockade of the encircled republic. Azerbaijan’s official narratives...
View ArticleNikol Pashinyan Must Resign to Salvage What’s Left of Armenia’s Sovereignty
Op-ed by Karen Harutyunyan, Editor-in-Chief “The future of Armenia depends on one person, and that person is me. The future of Armenia depends on one person, and that person is you,” Prime Minister...
View ArticleAzerbaijan is unable to provide Europe the promised volumes of gas
By Benyamin Poghosyan, senior analyst at Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI) It’s been more than a year and half since the signing of the Azerbaijan-European Union memorandum on...
View ArticleThe peace agreement is unlikely to address any of the fundamental issues in...
On December 25, it became known that Baku gave Yerevan a new package of proposals regarding the peace treaty. It was preceded by a series of notable statements by Azerbaijani and Armenian officials...
View ArticleArmenia must avoid becoming entangled in the ‘Russia vs West, democracy vs...
Maintaining Armenia’s Security Amidst Strained Relations with Russia By Benyamin Poghosyan The year 2023 marked a challenging period for Armenian-Russian relations, likely the most strenuous since...
View Article2 years of war in Ukraine: What should the South Caucasus expect now?
By Benyamin Poghosyan In just one month, the world will mark the second anniversary of the Russian-Ukrainian war. During this period, assessments on the course and possible outcomes of the war...
View ArticleArmenian media should build trust, not sacrifice it for more clicks
By Karen Harutyunyan, Editor-in-Chief The media is the least trusted institution among the Armenian public. According to the results of the CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer survey, in 2022, 73% of...
View ArticlePashinyan and Aliyev’s Munich meeting: Is the Western mediation track back?
Over the weekend, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Munich with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s mediation. This was the two leaders’ first meeting...
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