In a wide-ranging interview with Aram Sargsyan for the 1in.am news agency, RSC Director Richard Giragosian assessed the year in review in terms of Armenian foreign policy, regional developments and domestic political developments in Armenia.  The 15-minute interview was conducted in English and dubbed into Armenian.

www.1in.am/1807648.html

After a serious escalation of tension and military clashes in clear violation of the fragile Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire in place, the head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolay Bordyuzha, expressed concern that a full-scale Armenian-Azerbaijani war would destabilize “the whole Caucasus.” 

RSC Director Richard Giragosian assessed the risk of war over Nagorno-Karabakh in an article for al Jazeera entitled “Is war imminent in the Caucasus?”

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/12/war-imminent-caucasus-151224095948528.html

The Regional Studies Center (RSC) held its latest closed monthly briefing on 22 December, offering a comprehensive analysis consisting of three main areas: (1) assessing recent political developments related to the implications of the passage of the 6 December Armenian constitutional referendum; (2) the outlook for Armenia-Turkey “normalization,” especially given the recent Turkish-Russian crisis, and (3) an assessment of the broader military situation, in light of the recent escalation of clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh and with an added focus on the outlook for the diplomatic mediation of the Karabakh conflict. 

In an analytical contribution for al Jazeera, RSC Director Richard Giragosian assesses the Russian “capacity for raid power projection” and its “equally assertive force posture, marked by an expansion of its presence throughout the wider region.”