RECENT EVENTS

28-29 January 2025 CPS president Armen Grigoryan made a presentation about the situation in Armenia at the conference Europe on Edge – Tackling Hybrid Warfare amid Elections, Foreign Influence and Unfinished Europeanisation.


27 January 2025 The project Advancing Media Literacy in a Wider Community, implemented in cooperation with CRISP - Crisis Simulation for Peace with support from the German Federal Foreign Office, was concluded with a live stream organised by the Media Centre, discussing the use of international experience for the development of media literacy in Armenia (in Armenian), and the article The Development and Current Issues of the EU-Armenia Cooperation to Contain Disinformation.


27 January 2025 CPS president Armen Grigoryan participated in the discussion at 1in.am about the Russian propaganda about World War II, diminishing the role of the allies and non-ethnic Russians (in Armenian).


3 January 2025 CPS president Armen Grigoryan participated in a discussion about the EU-Armenia cooperation at 1in.am (in Armenian).


14 December 2024 The events planned within the framework of the project Advancing Media Literacy in a Wider Community, implemented in cooperation with CRISP - Crisis Simulation for Peace with support from the German Federal Foreign Office, have been concluded.
Over 500 participants, including students of secondary and tertiary educational institutions, representatives of regional NGOs, and others, participated in media literacy training.
19 activists and experts had an advanced training and expert meetings in Berlin. The participants received a warm welcome from H.E. Viktor Yengibaryan, Ambassador of Armenia to Germany. The group also met and had discussions with Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag Michael Roth, FDP fraction development policy spokesperson Till Mansmann, as well as with Mariette A. Pfister, desk officer, Cultural, social and media relations, Eastern Partnership Program, and Swantje Kortemeyer, Deputy Head of Strategic Communication, Federal Foreign Office. Fruitful talks were dedicated to the presentation of CPS’s vision and ongoing projects, as well as to the discussion of regional political developments and Armenia’s and Germany’s role and approach. The sides highlighted the mutual willingness to hold such meetings regularly, to explore the main directions of activities and development challenges for Armenian civil society and the opportunities of collaboration with European political institutions and state bodies.


29-30 November 2024 CPS president Armen Grigoryan participated in the Bucharest Security Conference.


27 November 2024 CPS president Armen Grigoryan participated in the presentation of the book Disinformation Resilience Index in Central and Eastern Europe 2024 in Warsaw.
The book, published by the Eurasian States in Transition research centre with support from the International Visegrad Fund, is the third in the series (with the previous editions published in 2018 and 2021), available for free download.


7-9 November 2024 CPS president Armen Grigoryan made a presentation on malign foreign influence in Armenia at the Sofia Information Integrity Forum.

SUGGESTED VIDEO

Interview with Dr Dalia Bankauskaite, partner expert of the Societal Resilience: Inclusive Governance and Strategic Communication project, 7 October 2024 (in Russian).

SUGGESTED READING

Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 130, including the article Black Sea geopolitics after the Russia–Ukraine war: The view from Armenia by CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan.

CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's article in New Eastern Europe: Armenia’s unique experience with COVID-19.

Disinformation Resilience Index in Central and Eastern Europe in 2021.