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Regional Digest August 1-September 5, 2022
Welcome to the #RestartConnects weekly digest on the main developments in the South Caucasus for the period August 31-September 5, 2022....
Sep 6, 20223 min read


Regional Digest July 23-29, 2022
Welcome to the #RestartConnects weekly digest on the main developments in the South Caucasus for the period July 23-29, 2022. You can...
Aug 1, 20224 min read


Regional Digest July 18-22, 2022
Welcome to the #RestartConnects weekly digest on the main developments in the South Caucasus during the period July 18-22, 2022. You can...
Jul 25, 20225 min read


Restart Initiative Welcomes Recent Armenia-Azerbaijan and Armenia-Turkey Developments
On July 1, 2022, the Armenian and Turkish Special Envoys, Rubin Rubinyan and Serdar Kilic, met in Vienna, Austria, for their fourth...
Jul 18, 20222 min read


Armenia-Azerbaijan Dialogue Series Launches in Berlin
From 15-18 June 2022, Armenian and Azerbaijani transport experts, academics, regional analysts and businesspeople met in Berlin, Germany,...
Jul 12, 20221 min read


Restart Initiative Welcomes Confidence Building Measures Recommendations
At the beginning of April, LINKS Europe published its long awaited recommendations for confidence building measures (CBMs), drawn up by a...
Apr 14, 20226 min read


Post-War Confidence Building Measures
In a Commonspace opinion piece published last month, Johnny Melikian and Ramazan Samadov argue that the unblocking of regional economic...
Feb 23, 20223 min read


Perspectives from Armenia on the Aliyev-Pashinyan Teleconference
In a podcast with ANN/Groong, Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan, the founder of the Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies, offered his...
Feb 18, 20222 min read


Restart Initiative Welcomes Resumption of Armenia-Turkey flights
Restart Initiative welcomes this week’s resumption of direct charter flights between Istanbul and Yerevan as part of the process of...
Feb 3, 20223 min read


Happy New Year from Restart Initiative
Happy New Year! On behalf of Restart Initiative, thank you for your support as we pursue our mission of building connections for...
Jan 4, 20222 min read


Unblocking the South Caucasus
While the 9-point ceasefire agreement that ended fighting in the 2020 Karabakh War omits any direct reference to a comprehensive...
Jan 3, 20227 min read


Aliyev-Pashinyan Meeting in Brussels Considered Successful
Despite low expectations following the meeting late last month between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Sochi, another between...
Dec 26, 20214 min read


What Role for the EU in Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations?
The November 2020 Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan left many questions unanswered, not only in terms...
Dec 25, 20215 min read


Perspectives from Armenia on Brussels Summit
In an interview held by Restart Initiative Executive Director Jeanne Mitchell last week for Daha Yaxşı, Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan, a...
Dec 20, 20214 min read


Statement on the meeting of Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels
Restart Initiative welcomes the meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders, Ilham Aliyev and Nikol Pashinyan, on the initiative of...
Dec 14, 20212 min read


Restart Initiative Statement on the 26 November Azerbaijan-Armenia-Russia Trilateral Meeting in Soch
Though the anticipated meeting between the Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian leaders originally set for 9 November failed to...
Nov 26, 20212 min read


One Year On: Building the Future between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Post- Conflict Era
One Year On: Building the Future between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Post- Conflict Era was an in-person discussion taking place in...
Nov 14, 20214 min read


Georgi Vanyan’s peace legacy must live on
The late Armenian activist showed us the way to peace in the South Caucasus. This opinion piece by Restart Initiative chair and...
Nov 7, 20214 min read


Bringing America Back to the South Caucasus | Opinion
This opinion piece by Arman Grigoryan and Restart Initiative chair and co-founder Emin Milli was first published by Newsweek on April 13,...
Apr 3, 20214 min read
The key to lasting peace in the Caucasus is reconciliation
After decades of conflict, sustainable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan can only be achieved through civil society-led...
Feb 10, 20214 min read
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