Tag: South Caucasus

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Guest:

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Topics:

• Iran Sanctions Escalate Amid Tensions
• Journalist Beaten Inside Yerevan Office
• Moscow Celebrates Victory Day Parade
• Armenia Caught Between EU and Russia

Episode 434 | Recorded: May 6, 2025

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Guest:

• Scott Horton, Ed. Dir. The Libertarian Institute, AntiWar.com

Topics:

• What happened to Antiwar Voices
• Color Revolutions as US Strategy
• Armenia and Pipeline Geopolitics
• And more!

Episode 433 | Recorded: May 2, 2025

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Guest:

• Dziunik Aghajanian

Topics:

• Genocide Recognition and State Silence
• Iran-Azerbaijan Talks & Geopolitical Shifts
• Bandar Abbas: Explosion, or Warning?

Episode 432 | Recorded: April 29, 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:

• James W. Carden
• Pietro Shakarian

Topics:

• US Foreign Policy Under Trump
• Transactional Foreign Policy
• Trump’s Cabinet & Policy Shifts
• US-Armenia Relations

Episode 420 | Recorded: February 27, 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:

• Fyodor Lukyanov

Topics:

• A New Détente?
• The Trump-Putin Call
• Russia’s Strategic Choices
• Russo-Armenian Relations
• Russo-Azerbaijani Relations
• Georgia’s Pragmatism

Episode 414 | Recorded: Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2025