RECENT EVENTS

23 September 2026 The project Youth Empowerment: Strengthening Democratic Resilience in Armenia Prior to Municipal Elections will begin in October, in cooperation with the Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC), and with support from the European Union and the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Foundation.
The project will include a series of critical thinking and media literacy trainings in regional towns where municipal elections will take place in the coming months, and a digital awareness campaign exposing foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), boosting media literacy, and encouraging election participation.


4 July 2026 CPS president Armen Grigoryan reviewed the outcomes of the 7 June 2026 parliamentary elections in a podcast hosted by Bálint L. Tóth, researcher from the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium Center for Political Science.


20-27 June 2026 As a result of cooperation with European University Viadrina, a group of Armenian school and college students had a study visit to Germany from 20 to 27 June 2026.
Other similar programmes to be announced soon.


21-23 May 2026 CPS president Armen Grigoryan participated in the GLOBSEC Forum: 'The Global Systemic Transformation: 21st-Century Solutions to 21st-Century Challenges'.


15 May 2026 CPS president Armen Grigoryan's commentary about the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia for the newsletter of the Forum 2000.


12 May 2026 CPS joins the Democratic Electoral Frameworks & Engagement against New Disinformation. Regional Strategies for Electoral Resilience (DEFEND) project, managed by the Foreign Policy Council ‘Ukrainian Prism’, and supported by the European Union and the German Marshall Fund Transatlantic Foundation. The project focuses on the study of foreign interference and electoral manipulation tactics (FIMI, AI-generated disinformation, vote-buying, etc.) in Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Armenia, and Ukraine. It is planned to publish a comparative policy paper on recent electoral manipulation tactics; several policy briefs, offering concrete recommendations for national authorities, civil society, and international donors on how to strengthen monitoring, communication, and legal safeguards; to launch a regional expert network in order to facilitate peer-to-peer cross-country cooperation in the long-term perspective; and to prepare a peer-reviewed academic publication.


22 April 2026 CPS president Armen Grigoryan's interview with the Aravot daily: 'Armenian "Hungary experts", Viktor Orban's defeat and "friendship" with Donald Trump' (in Armenian).

SUGGESTED VIDEO

Podcast hosted by Bálint L. Tóth, researcher from the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium Center for Political Science: the outcomes of the 7 June 2026 parliamentary elections.

SUGGESTED READING

European Institute of Romania working paper No. 55 (2025), Building geoeconomic bridges: European Union – South Caucasus – Central Asia. Opportunities for Romania.

Disinformation Resilience Index in Central and Eastern Europe, 2024 edition.

Understanding the Contemporary Information Landscape, a NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium publication.