Groong Week in Review - February 16, 2025

Topics:

• World Politics – US-Russia relations, NATO tensions, and European reactions.
• Middle East Developments – Trump’s Gaza proposal.
• Plan, or No Plan? – Pashinyan’s acknowledgment of the 2019 OSCE MG peace plan.
• Corridor Talk – Armenia-Azerbaijan transit negotiations and their implications.
• Domestic Politics – Robert Kocharyan’s press conference and its potential political impact.

Guest: Dziunik Aghajanian

Hosts:

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 416 | Recorded: February 17, 2025

Video: https://youtu.be/j4NYboS2Tck

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Glenn Diesen’s Book: The Think Tank Racket: Managing the Information War with Russia

Conversations on Groong - February 17, 2025

Topics

• Think Tanks: Defining the Problem
• Media Manipulation, NGOs, and Colored Coups
• Reforming the Think Tank Industry

Guest

• Glenn Diesen

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 415 | Recorded: February 6, 2025

Video: https://youtu.be/CAd1N-UAegE

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Russia, the US, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgian, and the New Global Order

Conversations on Groong - February 16, 2025

Topics

• A New Détente?
• The Trump-Putin Call
• Russia’s Strategic Choices
• Russo-Armenian Relations
• Russo-Azerbaijani Relations
• Georgia’s Pragmatism

Guest

• Fyodor Lukyanov (Фёдор Алекса́ндрович Лукья́нов)

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 414 | Recorded: Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2025

Video: https://youtu.be/55f4iBCIAGY

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Groong Week in Review - February 9, 2025

Topics

• Pashinyan in DC
• Trump Sanctions the ICC
• Azerbaijani Diplomacy in Action
• Workers Strike at Mining Co.

Guest

• Anna Karapetyan

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 413 | Recorded: January 11, 2025

Video: https://youtu.be/CZEW8s2uups

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The Estrangement of Georgia and the West

Conversations on Groong - February 10, 2025

Topics

• Effects of the Cutoff of USAID
• Georgia and the EU
• Georgian and the South Caucasus

Guest

• Archil Sikharulidze

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 412 | Recorded: February 9, 2025

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Glenn Diesen & Arman Grigoryan - The Incoming Multipolar World | Ep 411, Feb 9, 2025

Conversations on Groong - February 9, 2025

Topics

• The Ongoing conflicts: Gaza, Syria, Ukraine
• Shifting Global Power and Alliances
• Small Countries in a Multipolar World

Guest

• Glenn Diesen
• Arman Grigoryan

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 411 | Recorded: February 6, 2025

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Groong Week in Review - February 2, 2025

Topics

• MPG Poll: Pashinyan’s Rating Tanks
• Russia Azerbaijan Relations Deteriorating
• Armenia’s Strategic Geopolitical Balancing
• Azerbaijan and the “Zangezur Corridor”

Guest

• Benyamin Poghosyan

Hosts

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 410 | Recorded: February 3, 2025

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Conversations on Groong - February 2, 2025

• Who was Kirk Kerkorian?
• How Kerkorian Discovered Armenia
• Investing in Armenia
• End of Investments and Death of Kerkorian

• Harut Sassounian

• Hovik Manucharyan
• Asbed Bedrossian

Episode 409 | Recorded: January 22, 2025

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