Ilham Aliyev is the Azeri NAZI … Azerbaijan’s Aliyev is a Strategic Liability, Not an Asset

Activists protest in front of the U.N. Office in Yerevan, Armenia, on Aug. 16. (Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images)The firsthand accounts are harrowing. There’s no food on shelves in stores. Children stand for hours in bread lines to help feed their families. Mothers walk for miles in search of cooking oil and other provisions. Electricity, gas and water…

US Generals Gregory Anderson, Patrick Ellis arrive in Armenia to observe Eagle Partner exercise  Armenia News

The Armenian Church celebrates today Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the last of the five major feasts of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is the most important feast among the feasts dedicated to the Holy Cross, as it is dedicated to the history of the return of the Holy Cross from imprisonment, its elevation and glorification. In the Armenian…

Lachin Corridor Must Be Reopened for Humanitarian Aid, Security …  ReliefWeb

Pashinyan doubts Baku has real political will for direct dialogue with Stepanakert  ARMENPRESS

Pashinyan comments on Erdogan’s offer to hold Armenia-Türkiye-Russia-Azerbaijan summit  ARMENPRESS

Azeri accusations of Armenia torpedoing peace talks and laying mines are total lies – Ambassador-at-Large Edmon Marukyan  ARMENPRESS

Georgia’s majority party in parliament pushes to impeach the …  Torrington Register Citizen

Only right, European “way out” for President is “to admit violation of …  Agenda.ge

Moldova Expels Director Of Russia’s Sputnik State News Agency  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Armenian PM says peace agreement with Azerbaijan possible by year end  Al Arabiya English

On September 18-24, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan, will be in New York to participate in the 78th session of the UN General Assembly and high-level events. A number of meetings with the UN officials and counterparts from different countries are scheduled.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has commented on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s offer to hold a quadripartite meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh. “There are most various offers and ideas. I wouldn’t want to point out only one of those ideas. That’s not the only idea for me to express an attitude,” Pashinyan told reporters when asked about Erdogan’s…

80 people left Artsakh for Armenia on September 16  Armenia News

Armenian FM to attend 78th session of the UN General Assembly …  Public Radio of Armenia

Azerbaijani, Iranian FMs hold phone talk  Trend News Agency

Why Washington Is Reluctant to Help Armenia – Analysis  Eurasia Review

White House Discusses Anti-Corruption Efforts With Ukrainian Delegation  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Study: The Indo-European language family was born south of …  Big Think

President Ilham Aliyev attends award ceremony for Chairman of People’s Council of Parliament of Turkmenistan …  Trend News Agency

Washington’s support for Azerbaijan-Armenia peace treaty faltered  Trend News Agency

US Senator Bob Menendez calls out Azerbaijan for ‘outrageous …  ARMENPRESS

PM congratulates Jewish community of Armenia on Rosh Hashanah  Armenia News

Azerbaijan’s aggressive behavior could seriously disrupt the peace …  Public Radio of Armenia

Ilham Aliyev concluded his visit to Tajikistan  EIN News

Согласно документам, полученным «Transparency International — Georgia» («TI-Georgia»), бывший главный прокурор Грузии Отар Парцхаладзе получил паспорт гражданина России 24 февраля 2021 года, а в течение 2 лет после получения гражданства приобрел в РФ дорогостоящее недвижимое и движимое имущество. Неправительственная организация «TI-Georgia» опубликовала…

Azerbaijani armed forces must withdraw from sovereign territory of Armenia – Foreign Ministry  ARMENPRESS

Georgia’s majority party in parliament pushes to impeach the president but is unlikely to succeed  ABC News

US Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations meets Azerbaijani FM  Armenia News

Activists protest in front of the U.N. Office in Yerevan, Armenia, on Aug. 16. (Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images)The firsthand accounts are harrowing. There’s no food on shelves in stores. Children stand for hours in bread lines to help feed their families. Mothers walk for miles in search of cooking oil and other provisions. Electricity, gas and…

Georgian President congratulates all who celebrate Jewish New Year  Agenda.ge

Türkiye prioritizes stability and peace in the Caucasus and supports its brotherly nation Azerbaijan, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler said Friday, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Daily Sabah. “We place great importance on stability in the Caucasus. We are making significant efforts to establish lasting peace in the region and continue to support…

Baku is aimed at a peaceful resolution of existing issues with Yerevan, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Head of Foreign Policy Affairs Department of the Presidential Administration Hikmat Hajiyev said in an interview with TASS, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting AzerTac. When asked whether Azerbaijan could again resort…

Looming Azerbaijan-Armenia War Signals Geopolitical Shifts  ایران اینترنشنال

Opinion: Armenians are starving at Azerbaijan’s hands. Why isn’t Biden doing more to help?  Yahoo News

Azerbaijan again falsely accuses Nagorno-Karabakh of entrenching in Askeran  ARMENPRESS

Georgia, Israel connected with “special bond, friendship” – Georgian …  Agenda.ge

Obstacles emerge in efforts to reintegrate Karabakh Armenians amid …  Anadolu Agency

Azerbaijani FM informs US Department of State Senior Advisor …  AZERTAC News

EU Foreign Ministers to discuss the situation in Nagorno Karabakh …  Public Radio of Armenia

How to minimise ransomware attacks  sundaymail.co.zw

US: Donald Trump hits back after prosecutors request gag order in …  webindia123

Trump: I’ll Testify I Didn’t Order Any Tapes Destroyed  Newser

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Zelensky plans to visit Washington as Congress is debating $24 billion in aid for Ukraine  The Globe and Mail

Trump and Associates Are Putting Georgia’s RICO Law in the Crosshairs  The Messenger

Donald Trump welcomes Vladimir Putin`s praise, says `I like that he said that`  WION

Turkey could part ways with EU if necessary, Erdogan says  ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News

Louis Bono – GS – 5.14.23menafnUs State Department’s Senior Advisor For Caucasus Negotiations Visits ArmeniaBAKU, Azerbaijan, September 14. Louis L. Bono, theState Department’s Senior Advisor for CaucaNegotiations, has visited Armenia, T..2 hours agoTrend News AgencyUS State Department’s Senior Advisor for Caucasus Negotiations visits ArmeniaBAKU, Azerbaijan,…

The EU & US (the “Collective West”) and Nikol Pashinyan did one smart thing: they INTERNATIONALIZED the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict. Now it is not about Armenia vs Azerbaijan, it is the World (and UN) against the violations of the rights of the ethnic minorities, and, by association all Human Rights by the certain forces of Azerbaijan. Now,…

Chairman Menendez Leads Senate Foreign Relations Committee Calls for Enforcing Section 907 Restrictions on U.S. Aid to Azerbaijan WASHINGTON – Under intense grilling on Thursday by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a mid-level Biden-Harris Administration aide repeatedly dodged direct questions about the State Department’s failure to break…

Kyiv On ‘Offense’ While Russia Rejects Ukrainian Liberation Claim And Says Drones Downed Near Moscow  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

New Covid variant Eris is better at escaping immunity than other strains: Lancet study  Hindustan Times

China Defense Minister Faces Investigation as Speculation Grows  Voice of America – VOA News

Hearings on Nagorno-Karabakh in the US Senate JAMnews  JAMnews

Ukraine strikes Russia’s navy in Crimea: Emerging Europe this week  Emerging Europe

‘We want the Lachin Corridor to be opened immediately,’ U.S. Department of State  ARMENPRESS

Moscow works with Yerevan, Baku on Lachin corridor solutions …  Panorama.am

Biden Administration Dodges Senate Demands for U.S. Action to …  Asbarez Armenian News

“The Lachin Corridor Must Open Now That’s Non Negotiable” Yuri Kim  Armenian News by MassisPost

Azerbaijan hopes to ‘catch’ unwelcome Armenians with help of illegal checkpoint at Lachin corridor  Armenia News

Context | PM’s Murky Chinese Connection  Civil Georgia

Ukraine’s Zelensky expected to meet Biden during US trip  News.Az

Baku, September 15, AZERTAC The expert delegations from Azerbaijan and Armenia have met in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The Azerbaijani delegation was headed by Chairman of the Board of the Center of Analysis of International Relations Farid Shafiyev (AIR Center), and the Armenian delegation by Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan….

This week’s special episode of Russian Roulette features an interview on Georgia’s foreign agents law conducted by our sister podcast, The Eurofile. Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy from the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program sit down with Kakha Gogolashvili, Senior Fellow and Director of EU Studies at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and…

This week’s special episode of Russian Roulette features an interview on Georgia’s foreign agents law conducted by our sister podcast, The Eurofile. Max Bergmann and Donatienne Ruy from the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program sit down with Kakha Gogolashvili, Senior Fellow and Director of EU Studies at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and…

PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 800 (PDF) Every day, Russia’s neighbors observe its hostile actions in Ukraine with concern and uncertainty. The war and its consequences are producing a variety of outcomes, many we cannot predict or observe, including dramatic ones that could overhaul history and politics. We cannot foretell decisionmaking from…

Azerbaijani, Armenian experts meet in Tbilisi – AZERTAC  AZERTAC News

Analyst: Armenia has not recognized Azerbaijan territorial integrity …  Armenia News

Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh under harsh spotlight  Eurasianet

This theme embraces the study of ethnopolitical conflicts in the South Caucasus. It has three main focus areas: (1) assessing the current status and the risks of escalation, (2) proposing innovative theoretical approaches, and (3) putting the conflict in a wider historical and geographical perspective. This theme includes research papers. The Conflict…

Skip to content Within this theme, we study the transformation, building and consolidation of democratic institutions in Armenia and the South Caucasus. The main goal of activities within this theme is to encourage a rational discourse about existing problems and trends in nation-building, based on empirical facts and modern political theory, and to…

Skip to content The Caucasus Institute has engaged in media studies since its establishment in 2002, placing them in a context of political science and sociology rather than just communication studies. We have conducted media research in a variety of formats and using various methods, including:Armenian Media Quality Assessment, 2004-2007, a  joint…

This theme has two components: assessing research capacities in Armenia, especially in the area of political and social sciences, and improving them via the inclusion of Armenian research bodies in international scholarly discourses, networks and partnerships.The theme includes:Since 2006, as part of its partnership with the South Caucasus Bureau of…

The Caucasus Institute (CI) in Yerevan, Armenia, was one of the first organizations to launch Armenia-Turkey civil society rapprochement initiative starting from 2005. The activities had different components and were realized with the support of various partners and donors including the Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC), UNDP, the Heinrich Böll…

Skip to content Gender mainstreaming is still a challenge in Armenia; although the country has made international commitments, adopted national and marz-level plans and established bodies and offices responsible for gender-sensitive planning, implementation on local level remains weak. The projects implemented by the CI are mostly based on the low capacity…

Skip to content This theme is devoted to the study of Armenian diaspora, migration and minorities. The Caucasus Institute has carried out the following initiatives within the framework of this theme.Armenian Diaspora: Essays on Sociocultural Typology. The volume is the result of a joint study by two scholars Viktor Dyatlov, an expert on Diaspora theory,…

В Москве прокомментировали решение Госдепа США ввести санкции против бывшего генерального прокурора Грузии Отара Парцхаладзе. Как заявил в разговоре с грузинским телеканалом «Формула» председатель Комитета по международным делам Совета РФ Григорий Карасин, Москва не может реагировать на это решение иначе, как возмущением. По его словам, он не располагает…

U.S. To Give Ukraine Depleted Uranium Rounds For M1 Abrams Tanks  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

ICRC evacuates 9 patients from blockaded Nagorno-Karabakh  ARMENPRESS

Nagorno-Karabakh: Prospects for De-escalation (Online event, 15 …  Crisis Group

Abkhazia’s Foreign Minister Inal Ardzinba has warned citizens that improving Georgian–Russian relations could threaten Abkhazia, while also suggesting that Georgia was prepared to attack the region given the opportunity.  Just under two weeks after Ardzinba was rumoured to have resigned from his position, the foreign minister has begun a series of…

Avoid Armenia-Azerbaijan Airspace, Warns Aviation Consultants  Hetq Online

Putin’s Useful Priests: The Russian Orthodox Church and the …  Foreign Affairs Magazine

Macron Defends Choice To Attend Pope’s Mass  Barron’s

Pope Francis Meets Close Collaborator of Father Rupnik  National Catholic Register

Unprincipled men  The Western News

The Justice Department says there’s no valid basis for the judge to step aside from Trump’s DC case  WLUC

Special counsel argues judge should not disqualify herself from Trump Jan. 6 case  WPRI.com

Trump offers no valid argument to recuse judge overseeing Jan. 6 indictment: Special counsel  Law & Crime

Opinion | Marijuana should not be a Schedule 1 drug alongside heroin  The Washington Post

The situation created in Artsakh as a result of the complete blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan and the mechanisms for overcoming it were discussed during the working consultations convened by President Samvel Shahverdyan. Other urgent issues on the solution of food problems of the population, pricing of agricultural products, distribution of…