In a brief, concise interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, RSC Director Richard Giragosian explains the significance of the recent statement of the OSCE Minsk Group regarding the recent escalation of clashes and upsurge in fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and Nagorno Karabakh. Giragosian praised the reaction, which he defined as “seeking to send a stronger message to deter and dissuade Azerbaijan from its reckless disregard for diplomacy and its insistence in threatening not only Karabakh, nor Armenia, but the international community as a whole.”

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In a far-ranging interview with the “1in.am” electronic news agency on January 27, RSC Senior Analyst David Shanhazaryan assessed the recent clashes along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the flare-up of fighting, and offered an analysis of the current crisis in Armeian-Russian relations.

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RSC Director Richard Giragosian participated in a discussion of the recent escalation of clashes over Nagorno Karabakh and along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in a roundtable organized by the Yerevan-based Media Center on January 26. Giragosian joined Armenian parliamentarian Tevan Poghosyan, Stepan Girgoryan, the head of the Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation, and Shahin Rzayev, the Azerbaijan country director of the Baku office of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).

In detailed comments published in the Sunday edition of the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman entitled, “Turkey’s attempt to distract from Armenian centennial commemorations falls short,” RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered his assessment of the Turkish president’s invitation to his Armenian counterpart to attend the April 24 centennial commemorations of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, to be held on the same day as the traditional commemoration of the Armenian genocide.

RSC Director Richard Giragosian assessed the recent escalation of clashes in an interview on January 23 with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Armenian Service. Giragosian noted “the significant expansion of the recent clashes, in terms of both intensity and geography, noting the fighting went far beyond Nagorno Karabakh to include the Armenian-Azerbaijani border proper.” Stressing that “this latest escalation began well before this past month, but warned that unlike the past, when ceasefire violations were measured by the number of shots fired, this escalation is now dangerously defined by casualties nearly every day.”