Sergei Melkonian

PhD, Research Fellow (APRI Armenia)

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Feb 21, 2023, 2:54 PM

Israel and Armenia can be friends again

Sevan Lake, Armenia (photo by Aleksandra Dementeva via Unsplash)

Talk to most ordinary Israelis and Armenians, and you sense the great commonality: two democracies, one the world’s only Jewish state and the other an ancient Christian civilization, both striving to carve out a place amid surrounding Muslim landscapes....

Jan 25, 2023, 9:56 PM

Why should Israel oppose the ‘Zangezur Corridor’?

Over the past two years, there has been an active discussion about the "Zangezur Corridor" project, which Turkey and Azerbaijan lobby. Given that this project will radically affect the geopolitical landscape of the South Caucasus, Iran started to pursue...

Sep 28, 2020, 3:21 PM

Yom Kippur War between Armenia and Azerbaijan: Israeli factor

Another escalation began today (Yom Kippur in Israel) on the border between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). According to various reports, Baku has launched an offensive against the NKR. The main differences from previous escalations are as follows: Baku did...

May 29, 2020, 8:07 PM

Israel-Armenia Relations: Towards a New Stage

Armenia-Israel relations were established in April 1992. However, during more than 25 years the level of cooperation between two countries have been very low. To a large extent it was because of some constraint and the lack of mutual...

May 11, 2019, 12:44 AM

Bibi’s Israel and Putin’s Russia

In the modern world there are few heavyweight figures in big politics. After the overthrow of «political centenarians» in the Middle East during the Arab Spring they became even fewer. One of the most global figures that have a...

Feb 26, 2019, 2:27 PM

Three Reasons Why Russia Needs Israel

Relations between Israel and Russia have both rises and falls. Nowadays they are not so positive as a year ago and the upturn trend doesn’t smack. In this article I tried to describe the key directions and dimensions that...

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Research Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia) Analyst of Russia's foreign policy, Middle East and South Caucasus

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