Dr. Pietro Shakarian, lecturer in history at the American University of Armenia, published a new book called “Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin.” During an interview with 168 Hours, he talked about his book as well as some geopolitical issues.
168 Hours continues its collaboration with the Global Campus of Human Rights. In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Michael Hayes, Academic Director of the APMA program and member of the Global Campus Council.
In an interview with 168 Hours, Manishak Baghdasaryan from Armenia and Clara Roque from Mexico talked about their academic journey at the University of California, San Diego, and shared their thoughts on education and student life abroad.
The controversy over Israel’s lack of recognition of the Armenian Genocide erupted last week when Armenian-Assyrian blogger Patrick Bet-David asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu why Israel has not recognized the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides. Netanyahu wrongly replied: “In fact, I think we have. I think the Knesset [parliament] passed a resolution to that effect.” Netanyahu knows better than anyone that is not true, since he himself, as Prime Minister, has blocked several such Knesset resolutions.
For decades, up until the usurpation of power in 2018, we all together in Armenia, Artsakh and in Spyurk were celebrating this day with the grandeur, a sense of joy and dignity. Artsakh’s independence day was the day of liberation of a part of our Fatherland which had been unjustly annexed to the Armenophobic Azerbaijan. Our heroic brothers and sisters gave their lives for this day, thousands of Armenians gave the best years of their lives to this cause.
Today, on the occasion of birth anniversary of the former president of the Republic of Artsakh Bako Sahakian, the second President of the Republic of Armenia, Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan spoke on the phone with the members of his family, wished them patience and tenacity.
Maria Karapetyan, a leading voice in Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party and often described as one of its ideologues, recently wrote a Facebook post criticizing two Armenian scholars: Dr. Arman Grigoryan and Dr. Arthur Khachikian. Instead of engaging with their ideas, she accused them of hiding behind Western academic authority to disguise contempt for their own nation.
On August 8th, American president Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to announce a framework that could potentially end the two countries’ decades-long conflict. While many parts of the deal had been in place for almost a year*, the White House ceremony creates the need for swift action for the deal to stick. Europeans can influence the process, with their leverage growing as attention turns to the region’s possible integration into global markets.
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
“Peaceful relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan are a good thing, the role of the USA here is problematic, because the US is not part of the South Caucasus region,” in the interview with 168 Hours said Professor Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist, professor, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
