Armenia: Divided Within? 

Contribution to Al Jazeera program on Armenian politics today. October 2016

Interview with BBC Newsday on Chechnya. January 2016

Should the West Fear a Turkey-Russia Convergence?

Contribution to Center on Global Interests on the latest developments in Russia and Eurasia. August 2016  

Karena Avedissian follows up on a study done in Armenia in early 1990-s, comparing results and pinpointing changes in the mindset, situation and realities of today's Armenia and post earthquake, newly independent, blockaded Armenia.

Interview with CivilNet about researching Armenia. May 2016

June 2015 brought thousands of demonstrators to the streets of Yerevan following an electricity price hike proposal. The city center was gridlocked, flooded as it was with spontaneous protesters from every generation, and all walks of life, who all demanded accountability and transparency from both the electricity company and the government.

Public talk at the University of Southern California's Institute of Armenian Studies on protests in Armenia. September 2015

What You Need To Know: ✓ Thousands turn out onto the streets when police claimed they would disperse the protestors ✓ Armenian government came to a deal to avoid an electricity increase - by paying for it with taxpayers dollars ✓ It remains unlikely that #ElectricYerevan will turn into an anti-Russian protest In Yerevan, Armenia and other towns thousands of people have come out to protest the government ruling of a 16% increase in electricity costs.

Interview with Hromadske on protests in Armenia. June 2015

Russia's parliament, the State Duma, has given initial approval of a bill which requires non-governmental organizations engaging in political activity and receiving foreign funding to register as "foreign agents". Doctoral student of Russian studies at the University of Birmingham, Karena Avedissian, speaks to CivilNet about how this development will affect Russian civil society, and perhaps Armenia as well.

Interview with CivilNet on Russia's "foreign agent" legislation. July 2012