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- Reflections on August 8 White House Meeting
- Tensions in Diaspora-Armenia Relations
- Azerbaijani Lobbying, Caviar Diplomacy, and the Cuellar Bribery Case
Episode 470 | Recorded: September 5, 2025
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Guests
Lenna Hovanessian
Lenna Hovanessian is a community leader, attorney, and activist in Nevada. Her career began in litigation and as a federal attorney for the U.S. District Court in CA. She has blazed the trail for political activism in Nevada for 10 years as ANCA-NV Co-Chair and WR Board Member. She was awarded ANCA’s 2023 Visionary Activist Award for her leadership in advancing Armenian Genocide recognition by co-drafting and passing the NV Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Education Bill in 2021. She has been a force to advance policy for the Armenian cause and human rights from NV to Wash. D.C.
Hosts
Asbed Bedrossian
Asbed Bedrossian is an IT professional with extensive experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, IT security, enterprise applications, data center operations, high performance computing, ITSM, ITPM, and more.
Asbed is founder of the Armenian News Network Groong (ca. 1989/1990) and co-founder of the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020.
Hovik Manucharyan
Hovik Manucharyan is an information security engineer who moved from Seattle to Armenia in 2022. He co-founded the ANN/Groong podcast in 2020 and has been a contributor to Groong News since the late 1990s.
Disclaimer: The views expressed by Hovik Manucharyan on the ANN/Groong podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of his employer or any other organization.