Milena Baghdasaryan receives ‘Best Paper Award’

Milena Baghdasaryan (Department ‘Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia’) was awarded the ‘Best Paper Award’ at the conference “Informal Practices and Structures in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”

The conference was co-organised by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net and the Western Balkans Regional Research Promotion Programme and was held on 21–23 November 2013 in Fribourg, Switzerland. The award winning paper by Milena Baghdasaryan is entitled “Political Citizenship, Informality and Patron-Client Relations in Armenia: the case of a tycoon’s party”. The Price Committee chose four winning papers out of 80 papers presented. Two of the awards, including Milena Baghdasaryan’s, were granted in anthropology.