Series: Wir

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Guest:

• Mr. Arthur Khachatryan , MP, Hayastan Dashinq/Armenia Alliance

Topics:

• Iran Rejects US Offer of Direct Negotiations
• Iran and Armenia Ties
• Gyumri and Parakar Municipal Elections
• Artsakh Refugee Protests in Armenia

Episode 425 | Recorded: March 31, 2025

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Guest:

• Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Trump’s Iran ultimatum explored
• Turkey’s protests seen as strategic
• Azerbaijan’s peace deal as smokescreen
• Armenia’s Westward drift analyzed
• Gyumri elections stir controversy

Episode 424 | Recorded: March 25, 2025

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenia-Azerbaijan “Treaty”: Concessions, secrecy, opposition backlash.
• Preconditions for Peace: OSCE Minsk dissolution, constitutional changes.
• Ukraine War Talks: Jeddah negotiations, UAV attacks, Trump-Putin call.
• Witkoff’s Baku Stop: Mysterious visit raising geopolitical questions.

Episode 423 | Recorded: March 17, 2025

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Abkhaz Elections & Regional Implications – The second round of Abkhazia’s presidential elections, the impact of mass protests, and what Badra Gunba’s victory means for the region.
• Armenian Hostages in Baku – Ongoing trials of Armenian POWs and former Artsakh leaders, reports of torture, and international calls for independent medical evaluations.
• Protests in Yerevan Over POWs – Civil society and opposition-led demonstrations demanding stronger government action and international intervention.

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Ukraine Negotiations in Riyadh
• Edgar Ghazayan Bullied by the Government
• Robert Kocharyan Press Conference
• Yerevan Bus Fares

Episode 418 | Recorded: February 24, 2025

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Guest:

• Amb. Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• World Politics
• Plan, or No Plan?
• Corridor Talk
• Domestic Politics

Episode 416 | Recorded: February 17, 2025

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan Director of the Insight Analytical Center for Applied Policy and Research.

Topics:

• Pashinyan in DC
• Trump Sanctions the ICC
• Azerbaijani Diplomacy in Action
• Workers Strike at Zangezur Mining Co.

Episode 413 | Recorded: February 11, 2025

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• MPG Poll: Pashinyan’s Rating Tanks
• Russia Azerbaijan Relations Deteriorating
• Armenia’s Strategic Geopolitical Balancing
• Azerbaijan and the “Zangezur Corridor”

Episode 410 | Recorded: February 3, 2025

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Guest:

• Mr. Arthur Khachatryan , MP, Hayastan Dashinq/Armenia Alliance

Topics:

• Mirzoyan in Moscow
• Vahan Kostanyan in Tehran
• Mher Grigoryan on the Border (concessions)
• FIS Annual Report 2025
• The Silence of the Lambs

Episode 408 | Recorded: January 29, 2025

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Trump Inauguration
• Russian-Iranian Strategic Partnership
• UK-Ukrainian 100-Year Partnership
• US-Armenian “Strategic Partnership”

Episode 406 | Recorded: January 20, 2025

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Incoming Trump Admin
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks Stalled
• Iran Security Chief Visit
• Armenia’s Pro-West Signals

Episode 404 | Recorded: January 14, 2025

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Pashinyan’s Lies on Decades of Negotiations
• 17 Points to an Agreement
• 2024 Review and 2025 Outlook

Episode 403 | Recorded: December 31, 2024

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Guest:

• Amb. Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Armenian Azerbaijani Stalled Talks
• Fall of Syria
• Defense Politics
• Un-Civil Strife

Episode 401 | Recorded: December 24, 2024

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan Director of the Insight Analytical Center for Applied Policy and Research.

Topics:

• Is Azerbaijan Preparing for War?
• Pashinyan’s Deceptive Discourse on Talks with Azerbaijan
• Are Armenans Aware of the Dangers facing the Nation?
• Swiss Parliamentary Motion on Artsakh Armenians’ Right of Return

Episode 398 | Recorded: December 17, 2024

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Remembering the 1988 Earthquake in Spitak, Armenia
• Aliyev’s “New” Demands
• The Fall of Syria
• Georgia’s Post-Election Unrest
• Civil Contract Disobedience

Episode 394 | Recorded: December 9, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• COP29 Post-Mortem
• Azerbaijan Slams Polish President in Armenia
• Developments in the Middle East
• Post-election Developments in Georgia
• Russian Intel Warnings to Armenia

Episode 390 | Recorded: December 2, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Supreme Judicial Council Head, MPs resign at Pashinyan’s “Ask”
• Another Pashinyan Interview, More Scandalous Statements
  • Speed Cameras, Government Officials Cars
  • “Western Azerbaijan” ≠ “Western Armenia”
  • EU Mission in Armenia
• New Escalation in Ukraine

Episode 387 | Recorded: November 25, 2024

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenia-Azerbaijan talks
• COP29: Diplomacy and boycotts
• Gyumri’s political intrigues
• Mass dismissal of Armenian government members
• Police “reform”
• Legislative Changes In Preparation For Elections

Episode 386 | Recorded: November 17, 2024

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Guest:

• Mr. Arthur Khachatryan

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Draft 2025 State Budget
• Armenian Internal Politics

Episode 385 | Recorded: November 13, 2024

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan Director of the Insight Analytical Center for Applied Policy and Research.

Topics:

• Armenia at the BRICS Summit
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Armenia at COP29
• European Parliament Resolution

Episode 379 | Recorded: October 29, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Sergei Melkonian

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Elections in Moldova and Georgia
• Iran Russia Relations
• BRICS Summit in Kaza, Russia

Episode 376 | Recorded: October 20, 2024

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Guest:

• Amb. Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Azerbaijan Escalates Threats
• Russia-Armenia Relations
• Eat Rice, not Wheat, Have some Cold Winters!
• Srbazan Movement Update
• Regional Geopolitics
  • Iran-Russia
  • Israel-Iran
  • Georgian Elections

Episode 374 | Recorded: October 14, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenian Azerbaijani Talks
• Escalation in the Middle East
• Constitutional Court Punts
• Upcoming BRICS Summit

Episode 373 | Recorded: Octoberr 7, 2024

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Tavush Protests Gain Momentum
• Pashinyan Pressing Ahead with Land Concessions
• Poll Results on Tavush Protests

Episode 371 | Recorded: September 30, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Armenian Day of Independence: Sep. 21
• “Strategic Partnerships”
• Armenian Azerbaijani Talks

Episode 368 | Recorded: September 23, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Sergei Melkonian

Topics:

• September 12-13 Anniversary
• Between Blinken and a Hard Place
• More USAID for Armenia
• Georgian Parliamentary Elections

Episode 365 | Recorded: Sep. 17, 2024

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Guest:

• Amb. Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Iran Shuts Down Talk of “Zangezur Corridor”
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Iran Armenia Trade / BRICS
• Foreign Intelligence Service
• Georgian and Azerbaijani Elections

Episode 361 | Recorded: September 11, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Declarations of Independence
  • Declaration of State Sovereignty of Armenia (1990)
  • Artsakh Independence Day - September 2 (1991)
• Pashinyan Press Conference
  • Negotiations Formats
  • Artsakh Rights & Security as Pashinyan’s “National Security” Problem
  • Armenian and Azerbaijani Constitutions
  • Liberating Occupied Armenian Territories
• Putin in Baku
  • Azerbaijan’s Application to BRICS

Episode 358 | Recorded: September 2, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Anna Karapetyan

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Goris Kapan Road Cover UP

Episode 355 | Recorded: August 19, 2024

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Guest:

• Yeghia Tashjian

Topics:

• Iran’s Geopolitical Moves
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Stalled “Normalization”

Episode 353 | Recorded: August 12, 2024

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• US Leadership Changes
• Iran Armenia Relations
• Russian-Armenian Relations
• EU Push for an Agreement
• Srbazan Movement Next Steps

Episode 351 | Recorded: August 6, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Who Will be the Next Leader of the US?
• Turkish-Armenian Talks
• US-Armenian Defense Coop
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks

Episode 348 | Recorded: July 30, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• New Leadership Coming to Many Countries
• Aliyev Continues to Thumb the Nose of The West
• Permanent US Defense Attaché to Armenia
• Mid-year Review of our 2024 Predictions

Episode 347 | Recorded: July 22, 2024

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Prospect of Trump Presidency on the Caucasus
• Mirzoyan at NATO Summit in DC
• Parade of US Officials in Armenia
• MPG Poll

Episode 345 | Recorded: July 16, 2024

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Guest:

• Karen Vrtanesyan

Topics:

• Armenia, Azerbaijan, at NATO Summit
• Border Talks Still in Chaos
  • Srbazan in Syunik
  • Pashinyan in Syunik
• Srbazan Movement
• Arms, or Alms for Armenia?
  • Orban, Aliyev’s Man inside the EU
  • Eagle Partner 2024 in Armenia

Episode 342 | Recorded: July 8, 2024

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Guest:

• Amb. Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Srbazan Movement: Pause & Regroup?
• EU Parliamentary Shift to the Right
  • Armenia and EU Membership
• Renewed Azerbaijani Threats of War
  • Armenia Reports CAESAR Artillery Acquisition
• Did Pashinyan Get Marching Orders from Erdogan?

Episode 339 | Recorded: June 23, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Police Brutality, Violence & Repressions
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Armenia Russia Relations

Episode 337 | Recorded: June 17, 2024

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan

Topics:

• Peace Treaty and more Aliyev Demands
• James O’Brien in Yerevan
• Russia Armenia Relations
• Srbazan Movement

Episode 335 | Recorded: June 10, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Heavy Rainstorms Flood Northern Armenia
• Bagrat Srbazan Movement
  • Church and State
• Geopolitical Developments
• Rights and Security for Artsakh Armenians

Episode 334 | Recorded: June 3, 2024

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Guest:

• Sergei Melkonian

Topics:

• Iran President and FM Killed in Helicopter Crash
• Bagrat Srbazan Leads Mass Protests in Armenia
• Armenian Russian Relations

Episode 333 | Recorded: May 27, 2024

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Tavush Protests Gain Momentum
• Pashinyan Pressing Ahead with Land Concessions
• Poll Results on Tavush Protests

Episode 331 | Recorded: May 18, 2024

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Bagrat Srbazan Brings Masses To the Streets
• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks Continue

Episode 329 | Recorded: May 14, 2024

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Guest:

• Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Tavush Demarcation and Delimitation
• Bagrat Srbazan Coming to Yerevan
• Hungary Blocks EU Aid to Armenia

Episode 328 | Recorded: May 5, 2024

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Guest:

• Edgar Elbakyan

Topics:

• 109th Commemorations of the Armenian Genocide
• Pashinyan Concedes Tavush Territories
• Russia Withdrawing Peacekeepers from Artsakh

Episode 326 | Recorded: April 24, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Talks
• Iran Amidst Conflicts
• Political Prisoners

Episode 324 | Recorded: April 16, 2024

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan

Topics:

• Trilateral US-EU-Armenia Meeting
• Talks with Azerbaijan
  • Tavush: What has Pashinyan Promised
• Relations with Russia in Freefall
• Pashinyan Suppressing Artsakh Leadership

Episode 323 | Recorded: April 8, 2024

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Terror Attack in Moscow
• Growing List of Political Prisoners in Armenia
  • Narek Samsonyan & Vazgen Saghatelyan brutally arrested
  • Narek Malyan Exonerated, Remains Jailed
• Pashinyan in Tavush
• Stoltenberg’s in the South Caucasus

Episode 320 | Recorded: March 25, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Reactions to Interview with Canadian Ambassador
• More Concessions Signaled by Pashinyan
• EU Parliament Resolution on Armenia
• Fish Rots from the Head

Episode 318 | Recorded: March 18, 2024

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Guest:

• Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Armenia Stalled
  • Stalled with Enemies
  • Stalled with Allies
• Economic Diversification
• Fish Rots from the Head

Episode 313 | Recorded: Mar 11, 2024

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Guest:

• Arthur Khachikyan

Topics:

• Remembering Sumgait Pogroms
• Russian-Armenian Experts Dialog
• Exit from CSTO?
• Armenian-Azerbaijani Negotiations
• Edmon Marukyan Resigns

Episode 312 | Recorded: Mar 3, 2024

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Guest:

• Sergei Melkonian

Topics:

• French Connection
• Russian-Armenian Dialog
• Negotiations and Risk of War

Episode 311 | Recorded: February 27, 2024

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Armenia’s Security in Danger
• Munich Security Conference
• Relations with Regional Allies

Episode 310 | Recorded: February 18, 2024

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Guest:

• Hrant Mikaelian

Topics:

• Yerevan City Politics
• Aliyev “Elections”
• Armenia-Georgia Strategic Partnership
• Latest MPG Poll Review

Episode 309 | Recorded: Feb 11, 2024

Armenian News Network/Groong Week in Review - Feb 4, 2024

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Guest:

• Varuzhan Geghamyan

Topics:

• Diplomatic Flurry
  • Raisi in Ankara
  • Raisi in Moscow
  • Putin in Ankara
• Aliyev’s Constitution for Armenia
• How can the Opposition become a consequential force?

Episode 306 | Recorded: February 3, 2024

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Guest:

• Anna Karapetyan

Topics:

• Armenia Azerbaijan Negotiations
• Is Armenia Rearming itself?
• Pashinyan and the Constitution

Episode 305 | Recorded: January 29, 2024

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Guest:

• Yeghia Tashjian

Topics:

• World in Conflict
  • Ukraine, Israel-Gaza, Middle East
• Armenia Azerbaijan Negotiations
• Prognosis for 2024
• Thoughts from the Participants

Episode 304 | Recorded: January 22, 2024

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Guest:

• Karen Vrtanesyan

Topics:

• “Forced Illusion of Normalcy”
• Political Prisoners and Judicial Harassment
• Negotiations and “Peace Treaty”
• Armenia’s Military Capacity
• What Need to be Done?
• Thoughts from the Participants

Episode 302 | Recorded: January 14, 2024

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Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Public TV Cancels Catholicos New Year’s Address
• Governor Hunting Season
• “Zangezur corridor” redux; “Peace treaty”
• Thoughts from the Participants
  • Podcasts, labels, and language of division

Episode 301 | Recorded: January 8, 2023

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Artsakh President Annuls Dissolution of Republic
• Insecurity without Borders
• Pashinyan in St. Petersburg
• Year-end 2023 Predictions Review
• Predictions for 2024

Episode 300 | Recorded: December 31, 2023

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Guest:

• Arthur G. Martirosyan

Topics:

• Negotiations
  • Strategy, Prisoner Exchange, “Point Zero”
• The West’s Interests
• Israel-Gaza Conflict

Episode 299 | Recorded: December 18, 2023