RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS

Implementation of the project Further support for reforms in Armenia with Visegrad Four's know-how, supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, is currently under way. The project materials will soon be available.

During the visit to Slovakia in order to meet public officials and experts, CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan on 14-15 February visited the campus of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. Possibilities of future cooperation were discussed with staff members of the Department of Regional Development and Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics; co-director of the Institute for Democracy, Dr Jozef Michal Mintal; and prorector, Professor Peter Terem.
On 16-17 February, several meetings took place in Bratislava. Armen Grigoryan discussed potential cooperation with Rasťo Kužel, executive director of MEMO 98; Col. Rastislav Janota, director of the Cyber Security Department of the Slovak National Security Authority; Amb. Petr Mareš, director of the International Visegrad Fund; Dr Alexander Duleba, senior fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association; Dr Grigorij Mesežnikov, president of the Institute for Public Affairs; Katarina Klingová, senior research fellow of the Centre for Democracy & Resilience at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute; Tomáš Bokor, director of the Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation – SlovakAid; briefed a group of experts from the Ministry of Defence of Slovakia on the security dynamics in the South Caucasus region after Russia’s war against Ukraine; briefed Matej Drotár, third secretary of the Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia Department at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on the latest development in Armenia and the region. Additionally, he discussed the impact of the war in Ukraine on the South Caucasus region with members of the Young Leaders' Programme of the Strategic Analysis think tank.
This action is financially supported by the European Union within the framework of the Mobility Fund for CSO Experts within the Black Sea Region, implemented by FOND - the Romanian NGDO Platform as main coordinator of the Black Sea NGO Forum, in the context of the EU-funded project “Building CSO Capacity for Regional Cooperation within the Black Sea Region” (January 2022 – February 2023).

22 January 2023 CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's comments on the resolution adopted by the European Parliament: 'Blockade of the Lachin corridor is an impediment to the peace process' (in Armenian).

CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan participated in the panel discussion 'Russian imperial ambition derailing: consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine for the Eastern Partnership Region and the EU' during the Dialogue for Future 2022: 'Building resilient civil societies and defending democracies in the EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood' conference, organised on 28-29 November in Berlin by WECHANGE.

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, has been published.

13 November 2022 CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's interview with 1in.am agency (in Armenian): Restoration of the diplomatic relations with Hungary is possible, depending on a political decision without expectations for an official apology.

Book Understanding the Contemporary Information Landscape, including the chapter Countering information irresponsibility by CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan, has been published.

12 September 2022 CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's study Strengthening the resilience of participatory democracy (in Armenian), published within the Participatory Democracy Programme funded by the European Union and implemented by the Transparency International Anticorruption Centre in partnership with the Martuni Women's Municipal Council and Political Dialogue NGOs.

14 July 2022 CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's policy paper Sustainability of the EU-Armenia cooperation: Disinformation resilience component published within the policy research fellowship programme of Open Society Foundations-Armenia (in Armenian).

SUGGESTED VIDEO

3rd Eastern partnership e-governance conference Disinformation in the digital age. Effects on democracy, state and society at the University of Tartu.
Panel 1: Challenges by disinformation in the digital age, is between 57:08 - 2:31:15, with CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's inputs at 1:49:57 - 2:01:00 and 2:26:57 - 2:28:52.

SUGGESTED READING

CPS vice president Armen Grigoryan's article in New Eastern Europe: The war in Ukraine and historical revisionism.

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.