Tbilisi

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Guest:

• Sopo Japaridze

Topics:

• Georgian Elections in 2024
• Election Landscape
• Themes of the Campaigns
• Comparison with Moldova 2024
• Outcomes and Expectations

Episode 377 | Recorded: October 23, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Archil Sikharulidze

Topics:

• Georgian Politics, Amidst Global Currents
• Attacks Against the Georgian Church
• Thoughts on Russian and Georgian Relations

Episode 356 | Recorded: Aug 21, 2024

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Guest:

• Dr. Archil Sikharulidze

Topics:

• Georgian Law on Foreign Agents
• Politics and Diplomacy of Armenia
• Parallels and Lessons from Georgia

Episode 332 | Recorded: May 25, 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

Guest:

• Tevan Poghosyan

Topics:

• Crossroads of Peace
• 3+3=5 in Tehran
• Relations with Russia
• Defense Deal with France
• Artsakh Status

Episode 291 | Recorded: October 31, 2023

Guest:

• Johnny G. Melikian

Topics:

• On March 7, the Georgian parliament voted into law a bill that would require political actors to clarify their foreign funding sources and their activities to lobby lawmakers with such funding. This ignited large protests in Tbilisi, and on March 9 the parliament agreed to rescind the law and to release arrested opposition members. We analyze the events and the outcome.

Episode 238 | Recorded: March 15, 2023

Talking with Alison Tahmizian Meuse - TW/@AliTahmizian - November 17, 2021

• Alison Tahmizian Meuse is a graduate of the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is a French and Arabic speaker, and a veteran Middle East journalist, having worked over the past decade as a producer, correspondent and editor for major international publications including Agence France-Presse, NPR, and the Asia Times. She currently serves as a strategic advisor for the New Delhi-based consultancy DeepStrat and is newly based in Yerevan.

Topics:

• The drive to cover dangerous

Armenia’s Borders in Maps - A Conversation with Rouben Galichian | Ep 95 - Oct 29, 2021

Guest:

• Rouben Galichian

Topics:

• Following the 44-day War in Artsakh, Azerbaijan’s president demands Armenia sign a “Peace Treaty” involving full border recognition.
• Historical and contemporary mapping of Armenian borders
• Early cartography and 20th-century developments
• Enclaves, the Goris-Kapan Highway, and Sev Lake
• Armenia-Iran border considerations

Episode 95 | Recorded: October 29, 2021

ANN/Groong Week in Review - 08/16/2020

This Week in Review we talk with Hrant Mikaelian to discuss important issues and developments around Armenia, such as the Coronavirus Pandemic, and its economic effect; Armenia’s membership in EurAsian Economic Union and the economic effect of that organization on Armenia; and some of the trends affecting Russia and its economy.

Hrant will then join us in our weekly lightning round of questions from the past week’s headlines, to analyze Prime Minister Pashinyan’s interview with BBC’s HARDtalk; the presidential elections in Belarus; and the