Karena Avedissian

Senior Analyst @regcendemsec. Member @firethesetimes. Fellow @theRSAorg. PhD from @BhamPolsis. I cover disinformation, security, and social movements in Eurasia

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@ThomasVLinge Bad take

[Meghan Bodette @_____mjb]

Aid collected by Kurds in Diyarbakir was allowed to enter Kobane — BUT Damascus demanded that it be branded as coming from the Syrian Red Crescent. They want to take credit for aid that is necessary exclusively because of the actions of the Syrian Arab Army. Despicable.

[Meghan Bodette @_____mjb]

It’s been 24 hours and none of them have come up with an example of a law that grants Syrian Kurds all the same rights as Syrian Arabs have.

That’s because no such law exists in Syria — something no government partisan will ever admit.

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@Gargaristan For a journalist and editor in chief to say this now is mindbogglingly reckless and irresponsible

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@abu_lala_mahari @threadreaderapp unroll

[Long-Haul @longhaul_mag]

Workers in the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) in Karajan, Armenia recently carried out a wildcat strike demanding higher wages along with health and safety precautions in a mine still operating with ‘60s-era technology.

[Sayat Alaverdi @shat_merci]

One of the organizers of the miners' strike at the biggest mine in Armenia is being targeted by a $12 million lawsuit from the company. He's asking for international solidarity and awareness. His story below. Please read and spread the word.

[Meghan Bodette @_____mjb]

Instead of broadly arguing about federal and unitary states, it’s better to look at the Syrian and Kurdish contexts, identify interests behind Syrian Kurds’ request for federalism, and think about how any state type could address them. I do that here ⬇️ https://t.co/YkuYSgTBBt

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

My @CivilNetTV interview on my trip to Northeast Syria (AANES), where I met with Islamized Armenians reclaiming their identity

https://t.co/uP5OD93NJa

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This is cyberterrorism and yet this story has gotten almost no attention.

Ordinary Iranians use this bank, not having access to their money while they’re trying to flee Israel’s bombs is intended to cause harm and panic to civilians.

[Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی @hodakatebi]

THEY WERE AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE, Israel blew up the table and assassinated the negotiator

[Regional Center for Democracy and Security @regcendemsec]

🚨 New article out! @ArakelyanEdG & @KarenaAv's “Diversifying Armenia's Defense: Shifting Alliances and Military Modernization” is featured in the May 2025 issue of European Security & Defence, a leading defense policy magazine.

📄 Read here (p. 83): [https://t.co/6QxokrTqYP]

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@shat_merci LOL

[Tigran Grigoryan @Tigartsakh]

A compelling piece by @YesVicken:
"In a democratic system, the leader of a state does not need to pronounce what history is and is not, nor develop linguistic theories, and impose his taste on culture on the rest of the society."
https://t.co/QotEQPiafp

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@Nick_Castillo_ @JAMnewsCaucasus @JAMnewsCaucasus has lost all credibility with its skewed reporting on Armenia and has done next to zero to address that

[Kawaakibi Foundation @Kawaakibi]

As Trump settles into the White House for the second time, is right-wing populism destined to keep growing?

@iyad_elbaghdadi and @gatnash explore the structural reasons for its continued rise. https://t.co/5ydMrtBxn5

[Financial Times @FT]

Palestinians re-entering their abandoned neighbourhoods have found the bodies of loved ones crushed beneath the ruins of their homes. Gaza’s Civil Defence has said there are 10,000 bodies still trapped below the rubble https://t.co/w7ZsPljZC3

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

On point thread about the confused approach of the West towards post-Assad Syria

[Alex Simon @AlexGSimon]

Five weeks after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, the US and EU still have no policy on Syria’s transition: a seismic change which they have demanded for over a decade, and in which they have much at stake.

So far, most responses range from incoherent to wildly counterproductive. 🧵

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@nmatini @Mikiashvili_M “I can’t take sides” when it comes to human rights and aggression against civilians, okay

[Karena Avedissian @KarenaAv]

@alexayssf I’m so sorry. Sorry for you, sorry for us 💔