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Geopolitical interests of Turkey in Abkhazia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-04-13 20:24:17

Abkhazia only for Turks and Abkhazians. With  returns  of the “muhajirs” deported at the beginning of the XX century from Russia (ethnic Abkhazians and Circassians, Muslims) of special service of Turkey push the authorities of

Harut Sassounian.Trump’s Attack on Syria:Wrong for so Many Reasons
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-04-12 18:43:29

  Many Americans and people around the world followed with great concern the off-the-cuff and zany ideas Donald Trump voiced during the presidential campaign and more ominously after becoming President.   It

Harut Sassounian.Trump’s Attack on Syria:Wrong for so Many Reasons
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-04-10 12:35:33

Many Americans and people around the world followed with great concern the off-the-cuff and zany ideas Donald Trump voiced during the presidential campaign and more ominously after becoming President.   It

Armenia: “A Semi-Consolidated Authoritarian Regime”
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-04-06 16:26:33

  “Freedom House” human rights organization has published its “Nations in Transit” annual report, according to which Armenia was a semi-consolidated authoritarian regime in 2016 and registered a democratic recession.

Parliamentary elections in Armenia as new geopolitical preference
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-03-29 18:32:18

If in the political leadership of China it is accepted to play the bridge, in Armenia love preference.    We gave the forecast about a geopolitical situation in Armenia recently: http://www.nt.am/ru/news/226576/   and  https://in.pinterest.com/pin/119908408808532554/ .  But in

The "Arab - Jewish" NATO: real’s and myths.
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-03-20 22:14:46

     The idea of "the Arab NATO" can put in a tickler not only Saudi Arabia, but even Russia. We knew that during the visit to Moscow on March 9, 2017,

Russia in a geopolitical paradigm of Macedonia.
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-03-16 23:12:08

   The Balkan countries and Macedonia including, enter new "war" for preservations of the independence and national identity. After "reduction" of the EU, in connection with an exit of Britain,

Trade between EAEU Member Countries Continues to Decline
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-03-06 11:12:23

Recently the Eurasian Economic Commission published statistical data summarizing the annual results of foreign and mutual trade of EAEU member countries for the year 2016. According to the data,

Putin’s Visit to Central Asia and the Message to Belarus
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-03-04 14:31:13

On February 27 to 28, President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited three countries of Central Asia, namely, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.    The Russian leader’s visit was made against the background

Baku Gets Armed While Yerevan Remains Silent
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-22 12:14:22

On February 20, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its report on trends in international arms transfers. Among other issues, the report also addresses the arms trade imbalance

Tracing the Overrated Standards of International Banks (IFC, EBRD). AEF
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-20 12:02:02

When the boycott of Ameriabank started because of the contract signed between the bank and Lydian Armenia for providing the latter with a loan of 24 million USD to

EU Structures Support Further Establishment of the Ombudsman’s Office
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-14 17:25:10

  “Union of Informed Citizens” NGO continues the series on reporting about foreign grants received by RA state bodies. This time we will address the property and grants received by

RA National Debt Continues to Grow
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-10 15:55:16

  The level of national debt is one of the basic indicators describing the economic system of the country. The importance of the national debt consists in that it affects

Why Is Armenia Procuring Low Quality Superjets
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-09 13:29:12

  Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov has recently told the journalists that Armenia is interested in obtaining Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 civil aircraft. In particular, the airplanes will

Harut Sassounian. Improved Russian US Relations May Be Helpful to Armenia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-09 11:38:25

Last November, Americans elected the unlikeliest presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump. He is not your typical politician. As a successful and prominent businessman, he is used to making off-

"Just Business" Approach in Weapons Sales is a Boomerang
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-07 17:37:10

On February 7 the Belarus Supreme Court rejected blogger Alexander Lapshin’s appeal against the decision to extradite him to Azerbaijan. He’s currently awaiting extradition, which could take place within

Armenia: 25 year-old persistent and unfinished struggle for decolonization
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-06 18:18:49

After the collapse of Europe’s last empire—USSR and 25 years later from Armenia’s independency it’s still difficult to insist without ambiguity on the complete and irreversible elimination of neo-colonization

No Real Growth in Exports to Russia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-02-03 18:40:21

  During last year, “Union of Informed Citizens” addressed the topic of nature and causes of sharp increase in exports from Armenia to EAEU member countries. Export to EAEU member

Armenia at 25 Year: A Country at a Crossroads, an Analysis by K.M. Greg Sarkissian, President of the Zoryan Institute
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-01-22 12:05:38

Vasgen Manukyan, an intellectual and theorist of the Karabagh Committee, [a dissident group in Soviet Armenia ] in his widely acclaimed article written in 1990 titled, “It is Time to

Harut Sassounian. Improved Russian US Relations May Be Helpful to Armenia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-01-19 11:54:00

Last November, Americans elected the unlikeliest presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump. He is not your typical politician. As a successful and prominent businessman, he is used to making off-

Harut Sassounian. Improved Russian US Relations May Be Helpful to Armenia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-01-18 17:01:02

Last November, Americans elected the unlikeliest presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump. He is not your typical politician. As a successful and prominent businessman, he is used to making off-

Foreign Grants of the RA Ministry of Justice
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-01-16 13:22:45

“Union of Informed Citizens” continues its series on foreign grants received by Armenian state bodies, within the framework of which we will address the grants received by the RA

EU Continues to Remain Armenia’s Main Trade Partner
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2017-01-12 18:24:05

Armenia negotiated an association agreement with the European Union from 2010 to 2013. And though a document was finally agreed as a result of the negotiations, Armenia’s membership in

CSTO Does Not Exist?
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-29 18:35:30

On December 29 of 2016, Azerbaijan launched a diversionary infiltration attempt southeast of Chinar village in Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia, and entered into a battle with

Moscow and Ankara agreed on the plan of a truce in Syria.
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-28 17:05:18

  Beginning of article here: Turkey changed the name «Jhebkhat An — Nusra» to the new name: «Jhebkhat — Fatah — аsh — Sham». . Shortly on a subject: "Moscow and Ankara

Harut Sassounian.Pro-Azeri and Pro-Turkish Writers Denigrate Armenia and Diaspora
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-14 17:45:11

  Turkish and Azeri circles were displeased with my latest column where I had analyzed Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s phone call to Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan.   Azerbaijan’s Trend news agency published

Harut Sassounian.Access to Power: VP Pence Calls Sargsyan;Erdogan & Aliyev Call Pres.-elect Trump
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-07 15:19:50

Shortly after the Nov. 8 elections, I wrote a column suggesting that Armenian-Americans make every effort to contact President-elect Trump or his aides before the January 20 Presidential inauguration,

Harut Sassounian.Access to Power: VP Pence Calls Sargsyan;Erdogan & Aliyev Call Pres.-elect Trump
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-06 12:43:21

  Shortly after the Nov. 8 elections, I wrote a column suggesting that Armenian-Americans make every effort to contact President-elect Trump or his aides before the January 20 Presidential inauguration,

Harut Sassounian.Access to Power: VP Pence Calls Sargsyan;Erdogan & Aliyev Call Pres.-elect Trump
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-06 12:43:21

  Shortly after the Nov. 8 elections, I wrote a column suggesting that Armenian-Americans make every effort to contact President-elect Trump or his aides before the January 20 Presidential inauguration,

Harut Sassounian.Armenia Finally Counters Pakistan’s Anti-Armenian Policies
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-05 18:51:51

I am pleased to learn that the Republic of Armenia has finally decided to counter Pakistan’s persistently pro-Azeri, pro-Turkish, and anti-Armenian policies.   Last week, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported that

Harut Sassounian.Armenia Finally Counters Pakistan’s Anti-Armenian Policies
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-12-01 18:35:39

I am pleased to learn that the Republic of Armenia has finally decided to counter Pakistan’s persistently pro-Azeri, pro-Turkish, and anti-Armenian policies.   Last week, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported that

Azerbaijan's Flawed Healthcare System
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-26 12:10:31

A spate of high-profile allegations of medical malpractice, which has led to several fatalities, has served to increase many Azerbaijani’s already jaundiced view of their country’s public health system.   Most

Use of Languages in the World: Use of Russian is Declining
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-24 17:38:08

Recently Russian MFA’s Ambassador on Special Assignments stated that the Russian language should receive the status of a second language in post-Soviet countries.    Though that scenario is still unrealistic in

Harut Sassounian. Dr. Akcam Confirms Turks’ Genocidal Intent By Proving Validity of Talat’s Telegrams
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-23 13:21:18

Prof. Taner Akcam struck a major blow to Turkish denials of the Armenian Genocide in a highly informative lecture at Ararat-Eskijian Museum-Sheen Chapel in Mission Hills, California, on November

Why Kremlin Is Not Keen on the Armenian Civil Society
  • Social
  • 2016-11-23 11:47:09

During the last few years, different Russian officials have suggested numerous times  that the RA Government should neutralize “non-governmental organizations that hinder Armenian-Russian friendship”, enhance control over NGOs, and

Harut Sassounian.Dr. Akcam Confirms Turks’ Genocidal IntentBy Proving Validity of Talat’s Telegrams
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-22 17:49:12

Prof. Taner Akcam struck a major blow to Turkish denials of the Armenian Genocide in a highly informative lecture at Ararat-Eskijian Museum-Sheen Chapel in Mission Hills, California, on November

Harut Sassounian. Armenians Should Reach Out to Trump Through Republican Friends in Congress
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-17 13:43:47

An unprecedented U.S. presidential campaign came to an end with the unexpected victory of Donald Trump!   Since the November 8 elections, there has been endless speculation by self-styled Armenian analysts

Harut Sassounian.Armenians Should Reach Out to Trump Through Republican Friends in Congress
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-15 17:02:57

An unprecedented U.S. presidential campaign came to an end with the unexpected victory of Donald Trump!   Since the November 8 elections, there has been endless speculation by self-styled Armenian analysts

FGM Uncovered in Georgia
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-11 17:32:16

Authorities say they were unaware that minority group was carrying out the procedure.   An IWPR investigation has discovered that hundreds of girls from the ethnic Avar community in eastern Georgia

Gas Prices in Armenia and in Other Countries (Table)
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-10 16:01:26

  As it is known,  the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission plans to make a decision on reducing the price for natural gas. As a result, one cubic meter of natural

Harut Sassounian.A Dictator Obsessed With Power & Wealth: Erdogan’s 12 Scandals!
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-10 13:32:04

With each passing day, Turkish President Erdogan is becoming increasingly dictatorial. The arrest of 11 members of the opposition pro-Kurdish party, HDP, is the latest in a long string

Harut Sassounian.A Dictator Obsessed With Power & Wealth:Erdogan’s 12 Scandals!
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-08 14:33:07

With each passing day, Turkish President Erdogan is becoming increasingly dictatorial. The arrest of 11 members of the opposition pro-Kurdish party, HDP, is the latest in a long string

Harut Sassounian.Armenia and Diaspora In Quest for a New Start
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-07 12:27:09

Ever since Armenia’s independence, the Armenian world has been divided into three loose categories: those supporting or in some capacity interacting with the government; various opposition groups; and those

Armenian Civil Society, the West and the Russian interests
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-03 18:32:24

Witnessing Russian officials propose to strengthen the control on civil society in Armenia has recently become a common practice. This time, a similar proposal was made by the Director

Harut Sassounian.Armenia and Diaspora In Quest for a New Start
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-03 11:38:11

Ever since Armenia’s independence, the Armenian world has been divided into three loose categories: those supporting or in some capacity interacting with the government; various opposition groups; and those

Harut Sassounian.Armenia and Diaspora In Quest for a New Start
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-02 12:02:41

Ever since Armenia’s independence, the Armenian world has been divided into three loose categories: those supporting or in some capacity interacting with the government; various opposition groups; and those

The anti-democratic structure of the Eurasian Economic Union
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-02 11:58:33

Soon it marks the second anniversary of the Eurasian Economic Union and Armenia’s accession to it. However, Armenia's population is still unaware of the specifics of this integration system.

Harut Sassounian.Armenia and Diaspora In Quest for a New Start
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-11-01 11:44:04

  Ever since Armenia’s independence, the Armenian world has been divided into three loose categories: those supporting or in some capacity interacting with the government; various opposition groups; and those

Harut Sassounian. WikiLeaks Reveals Hillary Clinton’s Email Exchanges on Armenian Issues
  • Articles and Analyses
  • 2016-10-31 12:45:21

  The whole world is following with great interest the flood of internal emails released by WikiLeaks: over 400,000 emails of the Turkish ruling party (AKP), 2.8 million U.S. diplomatic

The Future for Global Armenians is now
  • Social
  • 2016-10-28 14:49:31

October 28, 2016 – NEW YORK, YEREVAN – The global Armenian community must do more to deliver a successful future for the nation that is economically and socially secure,