Sep 11, 2016

Woodstock Without Borders: One Caucasus Festival

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One Caucasus Festival, Tserakvi, Georgia © Onnik James Krikorian 2016

I’ve been meaning to attend the annual One Caucasus festival since it started three years ago, but this year’s event, held 25-28 August in the Georgian village of Tserakvi, was the first time that I have. Naturally, I put together two video reports, in Azerbaijani for the BBC’s Azeri Service, embedded below, and in English for Meydan TV directly below.

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In Armenia, Strategic Diversification Clashes With Geographic Realities

Jan 27, 2025

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signalled plans to seek European Union (EU) membership. Though framed as an attempt to diversify away from decades of dependency on Russia, Moscow instead sees it as a western attempt to simply oust it from the region.

From Key West to Key Failures – The Demise of the OSCE Minsk Group

Jan 15, 2025

When I moved to Yerevan in October 1998, it was rare to hear much positive conversation about the future of Armenia or Karabakh. That had also been the case when I visited the country on a research trip earlier that June. Many were already tired of the conflict and few seemed enthused with a new regime that had just come to power after the ousting the country’s first president earlier that year.