Groong Week in Review - August 31, 2025

In this Week in Review, we look at Armenia’s role at the SCO summit, where Pashinyan struck a new “strategic partnership” with China while also meeting Putin, raising questions about Yerevan’s shifting alignments. We examine the August 8 Washington documents on TRIPP, where words like “corridor” and “99-year lease” swirl despite Armenia’s denials, and ask what Azerbaijan’s demand for constitutional change really means. We cover rising tensions between Moscow and Baku after Aliyev called Russia an occupier and Zatulin warned against seeing Azerbaijan as a partner. And we discuss the UK’s push to raise relations with Armenia to a strategic level, even as London courts Baku and maintains loopholes in its arms embargo.

Topics:
  - SCO Summit in China
  - The UK in Armenia
  - TRIPP / Zangezur Corridor
  - Russian Azerbaijani Relations

Guest:  Benyamin Poghosyan

Hosts:
  - Hovik Manucharyan
  - Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 467 | Recorded: September 1, 2025

SHOW NOTES: https://podcasts.groong.org/467

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/kTh52542vtU

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