In an unprecedented escalation of its ongoing crackdown on dissent, Azerbaijan prosecutors have unveiled a new and enormous array of some 45 potential charges against Armenian humanitarian and political prisoner Ruben Vardanyan, according to his legal team. If convicted, Vardanyan faces the grim prospect of life imprisonment.
As of today, Azerbaijan has settled 2,417 families (9,306 people) in occupied Artsakh. Prime Minister of the country Ali Asadov presented the data in the parliament.
There is a clear political will in Moscow to solve the existing problems in the relations between Russia and Armenia. About this, Sputnik as reported by the Armenian service of the agency, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin said during the 9th Armenian-Russian Health Forum in Yerevan.
Doctor Arthur Khachikian, Stanford PhD in Political Science, and Journalist Razmik Martirosyan had an interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, CEO of Our Country Our Choice, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense during President Trump’s first term, and Christine Arakelian, a Senior Economic and Business Management Consultant and Fellow at the Armenian Society of Fellows.
Dr. Arthur Khachikian, Stanford PhD in Political Science had an interview with Arta Moeini, Research Director, Institute of Peace and Diplomacy. They talked about the US administration priorities, the war in Ukraine, the US relations with Russia, Iran and China, the situation in the South Caucasus, etc. He particularly mentioned:
Dr. Arthur Khachikian, Stanford University PhD in Political Science, on geopolitical developments, the games of superpowers, geopolitical elites in the South Caucasus, the ambitions of the U.S., Europe, Israel and the collective West in general with regard to Armenia, and the ambitions of Nikol Pashinyan, the social and political functionaries supporting the RA authorities, Turkey, Azerbaijan, the history of Russia’s policy in the region – all these issues were discussed by Dr. Pietro Shakarian, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, former lecturer at the American Armenian University.
Big question on everybody’s mind there will ba a confrontation between the Us and Iran. A․ Moeini
Russia is not interested in sharing the South Caucasus with Turkey․ Shakarian
China is not interested in the political element in the Caucasus, unlike West․ Shakarian
