Last week, Azerbaijan took full control of Nagorno-Karabakh as the self-appointed government of the enclave agreed to cease its activities and surrender its authority to Baku. This accelerated the exodus of Armenians from their ancestral lands, ending a century of autonomy for the region.
This tectonic shift in the Southern Caucasus is a humanitarian drama but also poses a challenge to stability in the region.
This week, Visegrad Insight editor Adam Jasser sat down to interview Richard Giragosian, the director of the Regional Studies Center, an independent think-tank in Yerevan,to discuss the impact of this historic event on the region. The following is an edited transcript of the podcast.
Adam Jasser
Deputy Managing Editor
Since 2021, Adam has co-hosted a foreign policy podcast “About the World at Onet” for Poland’s leading web portal onet.pl. He has worked as a business and policy consultant, including with the World Bank on competition, privatisation and regulatory reforms in transition economies. In 2014-16, Adam was head of the Polish competition authority. He served as Secretary of State in the Chancellery of Prime Minister Donald Tusk in 2010-14. He was Secretary of the PM’s Economic Council and oversaw the analytical and policy impact assessment department.
Before joining the government, Adam was Programme Director at Warsaw-based think-tank demosEuropa – Centre for European Strategy. Earlier, he spent almost 20 years at Reuters news agency, in roles stretching from translator and head of economic reporting in Warsaw, to bureau chief in Frankfurt and regional editor for central Europe, Balkans and Turkey.
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