✓Stepanakert’s central market has been damaged by Azerbaijani shellfire.
✓Azerbaijani forces continue to use white phosphorus.
✓More Syrian Jihadist mercenaries have been captured by Armenia.
✓The Armenian PM has requested assistance from Russia.
✓Stepanakert’s central market has been damaged by Azerbaijani shellfire.
✓Azerbaijani forces continue to use white phosphorus.
✓More Syrian Jihadist mercenaries have been captured by Armenia.
✓The Armenian PM has requested assistance from Russia.
This week’s episode of Insights will analyze the public statement and press conference by former Artsakh Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan on the current situation, as well as recently leaked documents from the UK government confirming widespread ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijani forces in Artsakh.
Mustafa Aydin, professor of international relations and the coordinator at the Global Academy (Istanbul), delivered a lecture on “The South Caucasus After the Wars: Changing Geopolitics, Shifting Alliances, Varying Security” at a conference organized by the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan on March 20. The conference was titled “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of the war in Ukraine.”
Armenia’s border with Turkey has been closed for more than three decades. So what would happen to the country’s economy if that border was opened? CivilNet’s Mark Dovich sits down with economists Hrant Mikaelian, from the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute and Omar Kadkoy, from the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation, to discuss.
Laurence Broers, associate fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, sits down with CivilNet’s Karen Harutyunyan to speak about the developments in the region since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Laurence discusses regional geopolitics, Western mediation efforts, the bilateral negotiation track, and Russia’s role. Even weakened, Russia will remain a tremendously powerful player in the South Caucasus, Laurence says. Earlier last week, Laurence delivered a speech at a conference in Yerevan titled “The South Caucasus: Trends and prospects in the context of the war in Ukraine,” organized by the Caucasus Institute.