The situation in Armenia is alarming, where a self-proclaimed democratic leader is enacting Stalinist-style repressions, arresting archbishops, and silencing opposition. How can a “Velvet Revolution” so quickly turn into an autocratic nightmare, and why is the West, known for championing human rights, not only silent but actively supportive of this crackdown?
Today I’m talking to Arthur Katchikian a political scientist and IR Scholars and Pietro Shakarian a lecturer of history at the american university in Yerevan.
Today we discuss the alleged Western-engineered rise of Prime Minister Pashinyan, who is now accused of selling out the Armenian homeland, and how Armenia is now at risk of losing its statehood.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Preview & Introduction
00:01:29 – Arthur’s Personal Experience with Government Repression
00:06:14 – Western Hypocrisy and Support for Armenian Government
00:12:40 – Pashinyan’s Crackdown and Selling Out the Homeland
00:22:07 – How the Power Balance in the Region Shifted
00:30:40 – Pashinyan’s Election and Treaty Ratification
00:35:00 – Demands for Changes to the Armenian Constitution
00:39:35 – Background of Pashinyan’s Rise to Power
00:40:53 – Legitimacy of Previous Armenian Government
00:46:26 – Pashinyan’s Political Background and Electoral Base
00:53:10 – How Pashinyan Maintains Parliamentary Power
00:59:59 – Final Thoughts and Outlook for Armenia
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Do not dare comparing that pubic louse pashinyan with Stalin. Stalin took an agriculture USSR and turned it into a nuclear Power.
When Muammer Kaddsfi was asked by a reportor (few months before he was removed and killed) whether he had any regrets? Yes, I trusted the WEST!
Rissia is not going to give up its position.
Armenia turned away from Russia. Now you are going to lose our country!
Children, children!!! Attention! Shut a hell up with your democracy! It doesn't exist! From one form of dictatorship you went to another chosen form of dictatorship!
During the USSR Armenia was the country's Switzerland.
Thanks for bringing Shakarian and Khachikian to your show. I wish them all safe and well. With all the news folding around these days, most new outlets don't report what is happening in Armenia. This gives us a chance to know how geopolitics are shaping a small country. Again, the interview confirmed that "Human Right and Democracy" are nothing more than a slogan used by the interested parties for imperialism. We have Gaza and now Armenia. More to come.
Thank you people, was really interesting and to the point. Leaving in the west, I as well took off my pink glasses and saw the reality, which is how the non-government organisations are in fact ruling the governments, so I agree with every single word!
Dear Pascal, when you ask how no one throws him away from his chair, just look at the European countries, Germans vote for the conservative right and they were elected, but yet, the left is ruling again and people cannot do anything apart from going to protests. Merz lied literally about his every single campaign promise, and yet no one can kick him out. Unelected corrupt bureaucrats like von der Leyen, going on with their corruption and deciding our future, and somehow no one can kick them out. It needs to be a really massive force, really massive backlash from the people so that something changes, and I think we are very close to that because people have had enough!
@ 8:32 it is amazing to learn that people will take their tender young babes to tense protests. People are amazingly rational.
Democracy never seems to be democratic. Better to have an authoritarian; its easier to live up to the expectation.
Prior to the war in Ukraine,Georgia had been attempting to curtail trade with Russia in order to distance itself from corrupt business practices, paying bribes, etc.. Georgia now so much easier to do business with since the fantasy of reducing corruption has been rejected.
The west is on the wrong side.
Very ONE SIDED.
Stalin emtied out the Azerbaijan and Ethnically Turkish people from the area to cut off the Turks from the Caucus Region and the Azeris. He then moved hundreds of thousands of Armenians into the area.
Nonsensical discussion, Mr. Khachikian, regarding Azerbaijan or Turkey will dominate the whole Armenian lands? It's called the Trump route. It's an independent contract with Armania.
If Dr. Khachikian wrote an article in the 90s, how old is he?….He looks as a 30 year old….So much inteligence with these 3 people and also youth…wonderful…love you…❤❤❤
Excellent discussion! Mr. Arthur Khachikyan should give more interviews in English, probably he can influence the so many Armenians in the diaspora brainwashed by The Pashin(yan)regime propaganda & their western sponsors. Very much needed to save Armenia. They have manipulated & divided the Armenian Nation. Catastrophic.
Of course, Armenia, serbia, whose next
Same happened to Greece for years traitorous governments except one. now we have o traitor PM that gives everything to Turkey.
Lies and distortions poured onto the audience are simply outrageous . No wonder , however, since these gentlemen are overtly serving the Russian interests and personally prefer seeing Armenia as part of the to be reconstructed empire. For anyone who lives In Armenia and is familiar with the domestic sutuation not by hearsay, these gentlemen are simply a laughing stock. Pathetic!
As nato is involved in expansionist forever wars to weaken everyone else, it’s also being weakened itself. Unfortunately these war games translate to massive losses for vast majority of population and govts.
Excellent 👌🏻
Writing from Istanbul, I would like to visit there some day and listen to your side of things. Seriously. I would like to hug you all and touch your warm hands. But I still have the urge to point this out : is it better for Armenia to continue its current path with Iran and Russia? No neighbor is your friend in geopolitics; you pick up the "better" of the other side and continue. It has always been this way. Best wishes. If you drop by in Istanbul I'll look forward to meeting you.
45:00 Nothing surprising there. When rural areas are emptied out, it opens the door for mining operations.
Very difficult situation. Little choice remains for Armenia and they have to make concessions. Hopefully they draw the line and can hold out in all ou war. It’s too bad that the Russia Armenia defense didn’t work out.
The problem is the Armenians in Armenia people are sleeping at the wheel if they don't wake up soon it will be too late.
The EU is a dictatorship. It's par for the course.
Shame on this two, they educated themselves to be professionals liars. Bravo your teachers succeed and well paid by their teachers 👏👏👏
How can these two lie so professionally I am amazed! People in Armenia 🇦🇲 are finally trying to be happy and then we have these two that are working with the criminals. Bravo to you two
Great video and Great people in interview
A lot of nations would have loved to have a dictator leader like Stalin now , sorry but it's true. We here i Europe would have loved to have such low crime and unemployment rates . Unpopular view but it's better to have a very harsh leadership who people fear and respect t but who also cares for the interests of its country than a bunch of moronic puppets with only one value in life- money, ready to sell out their countryman and their own mother
Arthur used to work for the KGB before, if you digger out you will find exactly who Arthur is
Arther, you are just full of shit as usual, it was okay what Russia did to Armenia, is this is what you are talking about, and you are another idiot Shakaryan
Americans were in Syria and Turkey still attack using there proxies
What a butt hurt bunch of Dashnaks you are ! Just say “Hail Putler “ and be done with it . Stop kissing Russia’s ass . Stalin style ? Who the F are you to talk about Stalin style anything ? Armenian citizens have lived through that during the rule of your Lord Kocharian . Where were you when they were murdering people on the steers of Yerevan ? Now journalists are asking you questions and THAT is repressive to you ? What a joke . Առանց դաշնակ Հայաստան :
Thank you so much. I am so ashamed and sorry that Macron, my president as a french, contributed to reinforcing the current regime in Armenia. Thank you for your courage to resist.
Thank you very informative!!
Wow!!! Very educational to know What is really going on In Armenia behind the curtain!!! Thank you 🙏
Don't be intellectually dishonest by calling whatever shit show Pashinyan has Stalinist repression. You have crafted this highly educated, professor teaches image of yourself, have some respect for the profession you claim to excel in and don't exaggerate mindlessly. Unless you are working as a propagandist for the Armenian parliament opposition, I do not understand how a political scientist can be so careless when choosing the words to explain the current political regime of Armenia.
You need to thank Stalin and USSR everytime before having meal and going to bed. These stupid leftists are killing me…
That is pure bs
The same thing they done in ukraine
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Armenia sold out its ally Russia who saved them from extinction by young turks
Pashinyan is destroying fundaments in Armenia from church to the history, to family values ! He already destroyed some museums and now he is destroying the genocide commemoration memorial! Pashinyan is pure evil to is erasing Armenia from the map by giving our historical lands( Artsakh) to the fake Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is a country created by starlin and the name given to it was taken from the Iranian state Atrpatakan ( adrbejan).
Azerbaijan is a fake state created on the Armenian , Lezgi and Talish lands by the communists and Turks to secure the Caspian oil! Artsakh and Nakhijevan were given to newly created Azerbaijan to suppress and kill Armenians in the region! Which they did by committing several genocides!
Wilsonian Armenia is recognized by the League of Nations (UN)after they gave the Armenian mandate to the U.S president Wilson, to justly map Armenia after the genocide! By the Wilsonian Armenia we get some of our lands back with the exit to the sea. Wilson sealed it with the Great Seal making it a law! Instead of helping Armenia to get at least Wilsonian Armenia that is not including all the Armenian lands EU and the U.S decided to erase Armenia from the map by strengthening terroristic Azerbaijan and genocidal turkey.
Wilsonian Armenia is recognized by the League of Nations (UN)after they gave the Armenian mandate to the U.S president Wilson, to justly map Armenia after the genocide! By the Wilsonian Armenia we get some of our lands back with the exit to the sea. Wilson sealed it with the Great Seal making it a law! Instead of helping Armenia to get at least Wilsonian Armenia that is not including all the Armenian lands EU and the U.S decided to erase Armenia from the map by strengthening terroristic Azerbaijan and genocidal turkey.
I have to share this video with Armenians from California…im sure they dont know all the true about whats going on in Armenia.I used to live in Los Angeles for many years, in 2021 i returned to my Homeland- Russia ❤. The american SM were hiding everything from us, just kept demonizing Russians & V. Putin, making us as the biggest enemy of American people. Thank you for this video, i m from Osetia myself- small region of Russia, located in North Caucasus.
I agree with some of the subject matters that you have been discussing. IF some of what you say is true…… then the Democrats, the leftists & communists of the USA are their example. Selling, stealing & ruining the country to mention just a few. Please Present the history of what has happened in Armenia the last 25+ years. How there were traitors within since Armenia's independence, how they sold the country, how Artzakh was already sold, etc.Then it should be a well balanced, fair news.
You have twisted truth sooooo much A. Khachikian