Established 2002 | Director Alexander Iskandaryan Website Caucasus Institute | |
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Focus South Caucasus political issues | ||
The Caucasus Institute is an Armenian think tank and postgraduate institution. Its focus is on encouraging "pluralistic discourse" in the South Caucasus, including the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
The Institute is located in downtown Yerevan. It publishes the CI Caucasus Yearbook annually in Russian, summing up the events of the year before yesteryear in the region.
Legal case
In 2009 Ararat Center for Strategic Research filed a suit against Caucasus Institute on accusation of Armenian Genocide denial in one of their publications called "Caucasus neighbourhood: Turkey and South Caucasus"․ Among other articles there was an article of Turkish Aybars Görgülü called "Turkey-Armenia relations: an eternal deadlock?" in which the author used the term Genocide in quotation marks. The General Jurisdiction court of Kentron and Nork Marash district dismissed the case against Caucasus Institute.