Political prisoner, RPA Vice Chairman Armen Ashotyan, during a traditional Q&A with 168.am at the end of the regular court hearing in his case, addressed the issues facing Armenia’s domestic and foreign policy, including the “bill” on membership in the European Union (EU) presented in the National Assembly by Nikol Pashinyan and pro-government civil initiative organizations, people’s parties, and their pro-Western units, and its postponement.
Dr. Arthur Khachikyan and journalist RazmikMartirosyan interviewed James W. Carden, a senior advisor to the American Committee on the US-Russia Accord (ACURA), editor and columnist at The American Conservative, and former U.S. State Department adviser.
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.
