RSC Director Richard Giragosian returned as a guest for the UK’s London-based Monocle Radio on 8 August for the daily news program “The Globalist,” offering brief analytical commentary on the White House summit meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
RSC Director Richard Giragosian joined the “Russian Roulette” podcast on 9 July, for a discussion entitled, “Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Geopolitics in the South Caucasus.” The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) podcast was hosted by Max Bergmann and Maria Snegovaya, with Giragosian joining fellow guest Jeffrey Mankoff from the U.S. National Defense University (NDU) for a discussion of “the current geopolitical moment in the South Caucasus, with a particular focus on the dynamics at play in the relationships between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia.”
https://www.csis.org/podcasts/russian-roulette/armenia-azerbaijan-and-geopolitics-south-caucasus
In a lecture on 2 July for the 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia, RSC Director Richard Giragosian presented an analytical overview of “Armenia’s new post-war strategy.” 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.
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.
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.