Harut Sassounian: Pashinyan posted a toothbrush from the airline gift bag, then wrote his UN General Assembly speech mid-flight. "It really concerned me a lot." #Armenia #Pashinyan #UN
▶️ https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/592-3-pashinyan-un-speech-on-plane/

https://youtu.be/YwihfxE01fE

Sassounian on mending a bitter feud with a former president: "I'll say only two words about the past, then we talk about helping Armenia." His model for rebuilding Armenia-Diaspora trust. #ArmenianDiaspora #Armenia
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Pashinyan got 49.81% of the vote. Then three polling stations were annulled, Prosperous Armenia lost five mandates, and Civil Contract ended up with a three-fifths majority. The hosts explain. #Armenia #ArmenianElections #Politics
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Sassounian: Trump offered to call Aliyev about the Armenian prisoners in Baku. A year later, Pashinyan still hasn't followed up, and Sassounian has a blunt theory about why. #PrisonersOfWar #Armenia #Baku
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France helped lift EU sanctions on a Russian billionaire. The same day, Azerbaijan freed a French prisoner. So why can't Macron get Armenian hostages like Ruben Vardanyan out of Baku? #Armenia #Azerbaijan #HumanRights
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Harut Sassounian: asked in parliament who he consulted, Pashinyan said nobody, I made my own decision. "It's a one-man show." #Armenia #Pashinyan #Politics
🔗 https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/592-4-pashinyan-consulted-nobody-one-man-rule/

https://youtu.be/YwihfxE01fE

Harut Sassounian on the church-state crisis: the first Christian nation is now putting its Catholicos on trial, with prison possible. "Very shameful." #ArmenianChurch #Catholicos #Armenia
🎥 https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/592-2-first-christian-nation-suing-catholicos/

https://youtu.be/YwihfxE01fE

The Prime Minister's office funded a 70-plus page report on the Armenian Church, opening with claims about the Catholicos's celibacy vow and a roadmap to remove him. The hosts walk through it. #ArmenianChurch #Armenia #Catholicos
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Six years since the 44-Day War. Thousands mourned at Yerablur, state TV aired a pop concert, and no Civil Contract official appeared. The hosts react with disgust. #Armenia #Artsakh #44DayWar
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What happens when a government attacks the church? Harut Sassounian breaks down the escalating conflict between Pashinyan and Garegin II, the Bern conference, and Armenia's identity crisis post-Artsakh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwihfxE01fE #ArmenianChurch #GareginII #ArmenianIdentity

Steve Witkoff's go-to advisors on Armenia and Azerbaijan? Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, both spymasters. The hosts react. #Armenia #Turkey #TRIPP
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Becoming an Armenian citizen is now about five times more expensive, and renouncing costs ten times more. Hovik calls it deliberate diaspora policy, not a budget measure. #ArmenianDiaspora #Armenia #Diaspora
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Goris mayor Arushanyan was jailed for protesting Pashinyan. A week after allying with Civil Contract, his case was dropped. The hosts trace a striking timeline. #Armenia #CivilContract #Syunik
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On the sixth anniversary of the 44-Day War, Hovik and Asbed examine Armenia's battle over historical memory. Pashinyan's campaign against the Church intensifies as Turkey advances regional integration and Azerbaijan erases Artsakh's Armenian cultural https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xIgSTsdLo

Artsakh followed every Soviet and international legal procedure to become a republic before Azerbaijan completed its own independence. A concise history lesson from the hosts. #Artsakh #Azerbaijan #History
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"Russians have an alternative. We don't." Khachatryan flips the Gyumri base question on the West: if it leaves and Armenia is attacked, will NATO react? #Armenia #Russia #Geopolitics
🎦 https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/589-4-who-needs-russian-base-gyumri/

https://youtu.be/pp9bcKTcbPI

"I'm an Armenian. I want to go to Iran. How do I do that?" A simple question about TRIPP no one will answer, while Azerbaijan is promised unimpeded access through Syunik. #Armenia #TRIPP #Syunik
🔗 https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/589-5-can-armenians-use-tripp-corridor/

https://youtu.be/pp9bcKTcbPI

Pashinyan promised $2B in "stolen" wealth back to the people. Khachatryan names the hotels and villas quietly resold at deep discounts to insiders. Families got nothing. #Armenia #Corruption #Pashinyan
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🔗 https://podcasts.groong.org/clip/590-1-jermuk-second-front-russia-plan/

https://youtu.be/H0_GV8ZQ7Jg

A number is emerging for the 2020 war dead, but the names stay secret, through 2023. Hovik asks what the silence hides and frames it as a matter of dignity and memory. #Armenia #44DayWar #HumanRights
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