Justin Tomczyk

Justin Tomczyk

Justin Tomczyk is a graduate of Stanford University’s MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. From April 2022 to December 2023 he worked as an Eastern Europe Subject Matter Expert at the risk detection and event discovery firm Dataminr. His real-time coverage included the 2022 Kharkiv Counteroffensive, the Rostov Mutiny, and the Fall of Artsakh. From 2017 to 2019 he lived in Yerevan, Armenia. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His writing can be found at justintomczyk.com.

The Eagle and the Trident

The Eagle and the Trident

With Zelenskyy’s potential visit to Armenia in the coming days, Justin Tomczyk writes that Ukraine’s experience over the past two years can provide insights into how smaller democracies must fight against their larger, authoritarian neighbors.

The EUMA After the Fall of Artsakh

The EUMA After the Fall of Artsakh

With the collapse of Artsakh, will the EU further enable Baku’s irredentist agenda to seize Armenian territory as part of the opening of the “Zangezur Corridor” or will Brussels show the same initiative to sanction and deter Azerbaijan that it deployed in response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine?