Armenian News Network - Groong: Week In Review Podcast

ANN/Groong Week in Review - October 17, 2021

Topics:

• A Flurry of Diplomatic Activity
• Results from Tavush, Shirak and Syunik
• Vaccination in Armenia
• Trust in the Authorities about Information from Border Areas

Guests:

• Hrant Mikaelian TW/@hrant_m

Hosts:

• Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevan
• Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq

Episode 92 | Recorded: October 18, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - October 3, 2021

Topics:

• Saakashvili Back in Georgia
• Putin, Erdogan, in Sochi
• OSCE Minsk Group in Artsakh?
• Tonoyan, Galstyan in Jail
• Hovik in Stepanakert

Guests:

• Benyamin Poghosyan TW/@benyamin_poghos
• Pietro Shakarian

Hosts:

• Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq
• Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevan

Episode 91 | Recorded: October 3, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - September 26, 2021

Topics:

• The One-year anniversary of The War in Artsakh
• Can the Opposition Reorganize?
• Turkish-Armenian Possible Rapprochement

Guests:

• Tevan Poghosyan TW/@TevanPoghosyan

Hosts:

• Hovik Manucharyan TW/@HovikYerevan
• Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq

Episode 90 | Recorded: September 27, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - September 19, 2021

Topics:

• Independence Day
• Pashinyan’s Turkish overtures
• Goris-Kapan highway closure

Guests:

• Pietro Shakarian

Host:

• Hovik Manucharyan

Episode #89 | Recorded: September 20, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - September 5, 2021

Topics:

• Pashinyan & Co. Shun Artsakh Independence
• Turkey-Armenia Reconciliation Reconstituted?
• Afghanistan: Taliban 2.0?
• State of World Affairs
• State of Political Analysis

Guests:

• Asbed Kotchikian TW/@AsbedK

Hosts:

• Asbed Bedrossian TW/@qubriq

Episode #88 | Recorded: September 3, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - August 29, 2021

Topics:

• Road to Syunik Blocked and Unblocked
• 5-Year Plan Approved
• Parliamentary Dynamics

Guests:

• Beniamin Poghosyan / TW: @Bpoghosyan

Hosts:

• Asbed Bedrossian / TW: @qubriq

Episode 87 | Recorded: August 29, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - August 22, 2021

Topics:

• The Government’s 5-Year Plan
• Is Russia Rearming Armenia? Artsakh?
• Press Freedoms Curtailed in Parliament
• Topics from the Panelists
  • Professionalism in Politics
  • COVID Complacence

Guests:

• Asbed Kotchikian @Asbed_K
• Hrant Mikaelian @Hrant_datablog

Hosts:

• Asbed Bedrossian @qubriq

Episode 86 | Recorded: August 22, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - August 15, 2021

Topics:

• Lebanon in Crisis
• Taliban Takes Over Afghanistan
• 8th Convocation of the Parliament
• Developments around Artsakh

Guests:

• Asbed Kotchikian - twitter.com/AsbedK
• Katia Peltekian - twitter.com/KatiaPeltekian
• Benyamin Poghosyan - twitter.com/BeniaminPoghosyan

Asbed Kotchikian is an Associate Professor of political science and international relations at the American University of Armenia.

Benyamin Poghosyan is the chairman of the Center For Political and Economic Strategic Studies, a Yerevan based think tank. He was deputy director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the Ministry of Defense in 2010-2016 and the Vice President for Research, at the National Defense Research University from 2016 to 2019.

Katia Peltekian has been teaching at the American University of Beirut since 1988. She has published two books which compile newspaper articles and reports from the Genocide years published in the Canadian and British press. Katia has been compiling news for the Armenian News Network Groong since 1999.

Hosts:

• Hovik Manucharyan - twitter.com/HovikYerevan

Episode 85 | Recorded: August 16, 2021

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ANN/Groong Week in Review - August 1, 2021

Topics:

• Continued Instability along Armenia-Azerbaijan Borders
• National Assembly Commission on the 44-Day War
• First Session of the 8th Session of the Armenian Parliament

Guests:

• Asbed Kotchikian @Asbed_K
• Benyamin Poghosyan @BeniaminPoghosyan

Hosts:

• Hovik Manucharyan @HovikYerevan
• Asbed Bedrossian @qubriq

Episode 84 | Recorded: August 2, 2021

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Unblocking The South Caucasus, Fact or Fiction?
A conversation with Areg Danagoulian and Emil Sanamyan

Recording of live Clubhouse conversation

As part of the November 9th Agreement, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a number of points, one of which was the unblocking of all transportation routes in the region and opening unfettered access between Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan. The specific wording of Article 9 goes as follows:

All economic and transport connections in the region shall be unblocked. The Republic of Armenia shall guarantee the security of transport connections between the western regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in order to arrange unobstructed movement of persons, vehicles and cargo in both directions. The Border Guard Service of the Russian Federal Security Service shall be responsible for overseeing the transport connections.”

Note that the agreement does not provide for a physical corridor, but rather unfettered access to be overseen by “FSB.”  This point in the agreement has led to much contention and consternation. While Azerbaijan and Turkey have been talking about reopening of borders, Armenia has refused so far to provide the said transportation link.

Guests:
- Dr. Areg Danagulian - https://twitter.com/varpetareg
- Emil Sanamyan - https://twitter.com/emil_sanamyan

Dr. Areg Danagulian is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. He is currently working on new, monochromatic methodologies for cargo screening as well as technologies for nuclear arms control treaty verification via resonant phenomena and physical cryptography.

Emil Sanamyan is a senior research fellow at USC’s Institute of Armenian Studies specializing in the politics of the Caucasus.

Hosts:
- Asbed Bedrossian
- Hovik Manucharyan

Episode 83 | Recorded: June 14, 2021

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