In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of May 17: Protests led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan continue in Yerevan; border commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a protocol on demarcated sections of the border; Armenia’s anti-corruption court is reviewing discrepancies in the 2022 financial reports of the ruling Civil Contract party and more.
Hungary recently blocked EU assistance to Armenia through the European Peace Facility, yet another move highlighting its strategic alignment with Azerbaijan, from supporting Baku's actions in Nagorno-Karabakh to blocking EU statements condemning them to extraditing a convicted murderer more than a decade earlier.
In this episode of “Examining the Context” podcast, Dr. Nerses Kopalyan talks about how Armenia must anticipate, mitigate and deter the Aliyev regime's threats and potential attacks by gauging its coercive credibility through a threat matrix.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of May 10: Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, Primate of the Diocese of Tavush leads a large protest against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan, demands resignation of the Prime Minister; Armenia’s Prime Minister Pashinyan meets with Russian President Putin in Moscow; Russian border guards and troops deployed to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border following the 2020 Artsakh War will be withdrawn.
This article explores the most accurate term to describe the de-Armenization of Nagorno-Karabakh by comparing various perspectives and examining the legal and political applicability of these terms.
In order for Armenia to mitigate, anticipate, and deter Azerbaijan's threats and potential attacks, it must understand and qualify the mechanisms that define the Aliyev regime’s propensity for bellicosity, and gauge its “coercive credibility”.
Allegations against European institutions of being Islamophobic, a serious assertion by Azerbaijan, is part of a much larger anti-West campaign which is often insufficiently understood and analyzed by Western partners, writes Tatev Hayrapetyan.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of April 19: Russian peacekeepers begin withdrawing from Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh; border commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan reach preliminary agreement on the demarcation of the northern part of the state border; France recalls its ambassador to Azerbaijan and more.
Freedom House's Nations in Transit 2024 report downgraded Armenia's democracy score. It also highlighted the spread of autocracy in the region, emphasizing that Western democracies have been inconsistent and hesitant in defending international norms, enabling autocracies to evade accountability.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of April 12: Amid increasing aggressive rhetoric from Azerbaijan and several ceasefire violations, an Azerbaijani serviceman is wounded following a border incident; a delegation of the EU Political and Security Committee holds meetings in Yerevan; Armenia and Georgia agree to finalize border delimitation and more.
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