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The Russian aggression towards Ukraine has had a substantive impact on the whole post-Soviet memory space. Already internally divided by conflicts, it heads further towards political uncertainty. In memory studies, the war has raised the question of the applicability, usefulness and even ideological rightfulness of the ‘post-Soviet’ category understood as an epistemological paradigm (Kuzio, 2002; Moore, 2001; Tlostanova, 2012, 2015). The South Caucasus stands as an archetypal instance of the question of whether the geopolitical construct of a region can easily be theoretically transformed into a ‘region of memory’ (Troebst, 2010a, 2010b).1