As an independent “think tank” in Armenia, the Regional Studies Center (RSC) regularly published analytical articles dealing with a wide range if issues related to Armenia and the South Caucasus region.

On Sunday, 8 January, RSC Director Richard Giragosian returned as a guest on the weekly “Sunday Analyst with Hrayr Tamrazian” news program for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Armenian Service Radio Azatutyun.

Joining host Daniel Ofman, RSC Director Richard Giragosian offered comments and expressed concern over Azerbaijan’s siege of Nagorno Karabakh, in a report for “The World” public radio news program.

In an online discussion assessing the state of democracy in Armenia, Freedom House hosted an event on 11 February 2021 entitled, “The Current Narratives about the Correlation of Democracy, Human Rights and Security in Post-War Armenia: True or False?”  The event on Armenia included opening remarks by Marc Behrendt, the Director of the Europe and Eurasia Programs (EEP) of Freedom House, followed by a brief presentation about the project and presentation of the topic by Sossi Tatikyan, the Project Coordinator of Freedom House in Armenia.

Assessing political developments in Armenia, Richard Giragosian, the Director of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), warned of “the end of Armenia's post-revolution honeymoon,” noting that “two years after the Velvet revolution, post-war disillusionment has put Prime Minister Pashinyan's political future in question.”