Balcani Caucaso Archives - Page 4 of 7 - Onnik James Krikorian - Journalist, Photojournalist, Consultant

EU Monitoring Capacity deploys on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border

Nov 15, 2022 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, European Union, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh

The European Union has deployed around 40 unarmed civilian monitors on the Armenian side of the border with Azerbaijan following serious military escalation on 12-13 September, that saw the latter strike and capture territory within the former, leaving nearly 300 dead on both sides. Though requested in September by Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, the decision to deploy the monitors came on 6 October at the meeting in Prague between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, European Council President Charles Michel, and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Sochi: The Summit of Uncertainty

Dec 9, 2021 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, Nagorno Karabakh

A trilateral meeting between the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia was held in Sochi on 26 November. Few details emerged from the meeting. For some it was a non-event, for others a step forward in diplomacy.

Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Waltz of (Missed) Meetings

Nov 25, 2021 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, Nagorno Karabakh

A trilateral meeting between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia should take place tomorrow, November 26, in the Russian tourist resort of Sochi. At the center of the diplomatic initiative the possible agreements between the two warring countries. However, the information is still scarce.

One Year After the 2020 Karabakh War

Nov 11, 2021 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, Nagorno Karabakh

Though the future remains unpredictable, last year’s war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh changed the geographical and geopolitical landscape in the South Caucasus after three decades of bitterness, conflict, and division.

Remembering Georgi Vanyan

Oct 30, 2021 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh, Tekali Process

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has just published my short piece remembering Armenian human rights and peace activist Georgi Vanyan who sadly passed away recently after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month.

Armenia-Azerbaijan: The Risks for Georgia

Oct 27, 2020 | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balcani Caucaso, Georgia, Minorities, Nagorno Karabakh, Radicalisation

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has published my latest update on how the 2020 Karabakh War between Armenia and Azerbaijan might affect Georgia’s two largest ethnic minorities. In 2016, OpenDemocracy published a similar piece of mine following the 4-day war. Local ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani civil society activists warn that radicalisation among some individuals in the two communities continues, but that the situation still nonetheless remains relatively calm. This is an issue that does need to be monitored, however.

Georgia’s EU Association Agreement Still On Track, But Some Hurdles Remain

Apr 22, 2014 | Balcani Caucaso, European Union, Georgia

As Georgia prepares to sign its Association Agreement with the EU, civil society in the former Soviet republic held its own event supporting and confirming the country’s European aspirations. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has just published my piece on the event as well as two others that, coincidentally or not, occurred just hours earlier and which also identified some of the obstacles that still need to be overcome.

Georgian Environmentalists Halt Construction In Vake Park in Tbilisi

Feb 4, 2014 | Balcani Caucaso, Environment, Georgia

Braving the recent snowfall and plummeting temperatures, environmentalists have managed to prevent construction from continuing in Tbilisi’s central Vake Park — for now at least. Blockading the road leading to the site where a new hotel is being built, activists from Guerrilla Gardening Tbilisi are now camped out adjacent to the construction site.

Ukraine Euromaidan Solidarity Action in Tbilisi

Dec 6, 2013 | Balcani Caucaso, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine

Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso has just published a few of my photographs of this week’s Ukraine Euromaidan solidarity action held outside the old parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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