Tag: Soviet Union

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Guest Host:

• Dr. Bedros Afeyan

Guest:

• Diana Mkrtchyan

Topics:

• Diana Mkrtchyan’s personal and artistic journey
• The origins of Ojakh in Erhan Arik’s photographic work
• Filming the final testimonies of Armenian Genocide survivors
• Ethical and technical challenges of documenting trauma
• The erasure of Ojakh from official cultural promotion in Armenia
• Cinema as historical record and moral witness
• Mkrtchyan’s Artsakh footage during the blockade

Episode 499 | Recorded: December 27, 2025

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Guest:

• Pietro Shakarian

Topics:

• Research journey, archives Moscow and Yerevan
• Mikoyan’s vision of confederation for the USSR
• Artsakh’s status within Soviet constraints
• De-Stalinization and Armenia’s cultural thaw
• Mikoyan’s stance toward the Armenian Church

Episode 480 | Recorded on October 18, 2025

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Guest:

• Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, Author of - War Diaries. Volume 1

Topics:

• SCO Summit in Tianjin, China
• China-India Thaw
• Power of Siberia Gas Pipeline
• What’s in it for Armenia?

Episode 469 | Recorded: September 4, 2025

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Guest:

• Dr. Glenn Diesen
• Dr. Arman Grigoryan

Topics:

• The Ongoing conflicts: Gaza, Syria, Ukraine
• Shifting Global Power and Alliances
• Small Countries in a Multipolar World

Episode 411 | Recorded: February 6, 2025

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Guest:

• Aram Orbelyan

Topics:

• What is the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration?
• What is the CIS Based on?
• About Borders, Treaties, and Declarations
• Armenia’s explicit reservation affecting Artsakh in the Treaty
• Why would Pashinyan ignore the Reservations?
• Territorial Integrity and Use of Force
• What Autonomy was LTP Envisioning?
• Where does 2023 Leave the Cause of Artsakh?
• How should Armenia Pursue it on the International Scene?

Episode 293 | Recorded: November 13, 2023

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Guest:

• Pietro Shakarian

Topics:

• The Life and Times of Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan

Episode 28 | Recorded on December 3, 2020