"Richard Giragosian, sentinel of the Caucasus, has passed away" by Carlo Coppola
In the night of 19 September in Istanbul , Richard Giragosian , analyst, journalist, and founder and director of the Regional Studies Center in Yerevan, passed away. He was 61. According to Agos, he had come to Turkey for a meeting when, a week ago, a brain hemorrhage forced his admission to Okmeydanı Hospital, where he remained in intensive care for a long time. The funeral will be held in Armenia. He was born in Providence , Rhode Island, on 8 January 1965 , a child of the American Armenian diaspora that keeps alive the memory of a lost homeland. In 2006 he chose to return to where that memory still lives: Armenia. Behind him lay the US Senate and lectures to Special Forces at Fort Bragg . Ahead lay over thirty-five years in security and international relations, between the College of Europe at Natolin, Yerevan State University and the NATO Defense College in Rome . He was scholar and chronicler at once. He worked with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty , Al Jazee...
