Richard Giragosian

The vi­o­lent act of hostage-tak­ing is a man­i­fes­ta­tion of sig­nif­i­cant dis­con­tent with­in Ar­me­nia.

Re­newed fight­ing over Nagorno-Karabakh risks be­com­ing an op­por­tu­ni­ty for Russ­ian in­volve­ment in the re­gion.

New dead­ly ra­di­o­log­i­cal weapons pose new chal­lenge to un­der-fund­ed, un­pre­pared se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices in South Cau­ca­sus.

Be­yond the head­lines of war in Syr­ia and Ukraine, a surge in fight­ing in the South Cau­ca­sus has re­newed fear of war.

From Ukraine to Syr­ia, Rus­sia is de­ter­mined to con­front and con­tain the West.

The do­mes­tic con­text of this cri­sis of­fers po­lit­i­cal div­i­dends that only deep­en di­vi­sion and en­cour­age es­ca­la­tion.

A re­cent up­surge in fight­ing over Nagorno-Karabakh serves Russ­ian in­ter­ests and shows the dan­gers of war by ac­ci­dent.

No mat­ter how at­trac­tive Ar­me­nia might be as a bridge for re-en­gag­ing Iran, the real ob­sta­cle is Rus­sia.

Un­rest in Ar­me­nia re­flects a re­newed sense of out­rage over Rus­sia’s ar­ro­gance to­wards this small, land­locked coun­try.

Ar­me­nia protests rep­re­sent much more than a dis­play of anger over an en­er­gy price rise.