Armenian hostage standoff and political implications (Richard Giragosian, Al Jazeera)

Early in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, a small group of well-armed gunmen stormed a local police station in Yerevan, forcibly taking several police officers hostage.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/07/armenian-hostage-standoff-political-implications-160718084605238.html

Nagorno-Karabakh: The death of diplomacy (Richard Giragosian, Al Jazeera)

With much fanfare, the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents seemed pleased by the welcome as participants in US President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. Joining more than 50 world leaders at the opening of the summit on March 31, both leaders met with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice-President Joseph Biden.

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Richard Giragosian is the founding director of the Regional Studies Centre, an independent think tank in Yerevan, Armenia

Just the threat of a dirty bomb. New deadly radiological weapons pose new challenge to under-funded, unprepared security services in South Caucasus (Richard Giragosian, Al Jazeera)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/threat-dirty-bomb-160113053622510.html