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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

France helped lift EU sanctions on a Russian billionaire. The same day, Azerbaijan freed a French prisoner. So why can't Macron get Armenian hostages like Ruben Vardanyan out of Baku? #Armenia #Azerbaijan #HumanRights 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harut Sassounian: asked in parliament who he consulted, Pashinyan said nobody, I made my own decision. "It's a one-man show." #Armenia #Pashinyan #Politics 🔗 podcasts.groong.org/clip/592-4-pash… youtu.be/YwihfxE01fE

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Harut Sassounian on the church-state crisis: the first Christian nation is now putting its Catholicos on trial, with prison possible. "Very shameful." #ArmenianChurch #Catholicos #Armenia 🎥 podcasts.groong.org/clip/592-2-firs… youtu.be/YwihfxE01fE

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Prime Minister's office funded a 70-plus page report on the Armenian Church, opening with claims about the Catholicos's celibacy vow and a roadmap to remove him. The hosts walk through it. #ArmenianChurch #Armenia #Catholicos 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Six years since the 44-Day War. Thousands mourned at Yerablur, state TV aired a pop concert, and no Civil Contract official appeared. The hosts react with disgust. #Armenia #Artsakh #44DayWar 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What happens when a government attacks the church? Harut Sassounian breaks down the escalating conflict between Pashinyan and Garegin II, the Bern conference, and Armenia's identity crisis post-Artsakh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwihfxE01fE #ArmenianChurch #GareginII #ArmenianIdentity

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steve Witkoff's go-to advisors on Armenia and Azerbaijan? Turkey's foreign minister Hakan Fidan and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, both spymasters. The hosts react. #Armenia #Turkey #TRIPP 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Becoming an Armenian citizen is now about five times more expensive, and renouncing costs ten times more. Hovik calls it deliberate diaspora policy, not a budget measure. #ArmenianDiaspora #Armenia #Diaspora ▶️…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Goris mayor Arushanyan was jailed for protesting Pashinyan. A week after allying with Civil Contract, his case was dropped. The hosts trace a striking timeline. #Armenia #CivilContract #Syunik 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the sixth anniversary of the 44-Day War, Hovik and Asbed examine Armenia's battle over historical memory. Pashinyan's campaign against the Church intensifies as Turkey advances regional integration and Azerbaijan erases Artsakh's Armenian cultural www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xIgSTsdLo

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Artsakh followed every Soviet and international legal procedure to become a republic before Azerbaijan completed its own independence. A concise history lesson from the hosts. #Artsakh #Azerbaijan #History 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Russians have an alternative. We don't." Khachatryan flips the Gyumri base question on the West: if it leaves and Armenia is attacked, will NATO react? #Armenia #Russia #Geopolitics 🎦 podcasts.groong.org/clip/589-4-who-… youtu.be/pp9bcKTcbPI

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"I'm an Armenian. I want to go to Iran. How do I do that?" A simple question about TRIPP no one will answer, while Azerbaijan is promised unimpeded access through Syunik. #Armenia #TRIPP #Syunik 🔗 podcasts.groong.org/clip/589-5-can-… youtu.be/pp9bcKTcbPI

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pashinyan promised $2B in "stolen" wealth back to the people. Khachatryan names the hotels and villas quietly resold at deep discounts to insiders. Families got nothing. #Armenia #Corruption #Pashinyan 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A number is emerging for the 2020 war dead, but the names stay secret, through 2023. Hovik asks what the silence hides and frames it as a matter of dignity and memory. #Armenia #44DayWar #HumanRights 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Civil Contract said the last ARF MP should be the last one ever in parliament. Khachatryan hears an echo of 1915: "only one Armenian shall be kept in the museum." He says the intent is real. #Armenia #ARF #Pashinyan 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Armenia is racing towards dictatorship." Arthur Khachatryan reads back Pashinyan's parliament threats and warns of one-man rule concentrating power over courts, church and parties. #Armenia #Pashinyan #ArmenianNews 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Putin's parliamentary supermajority, Middle East war, and Armenia-Russia tensions collide. Dziunik Aghajanian breaks down the 102nd base confrontation, asset confiscation, and why the peace process faces new pressures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_GV8ZQ7Jg #Armenia #SouthCaucasus #Geopolitics

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hovik on the Turkey-Azerbaijan alliance: uniquely strong, and something Armenia held off for 26 years until Pashinyan, in his telling. A confident strategic read. #Turkey #Azerbaijan #SouthCaucasus 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Warwick Powell reframes China's role: not an extractive hegemon but an enabling power running an open source development model, infrastructure to open source AI, with few strings attached. #China #Geopolitics #BRICS ▶️…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Warwick Powell on TRIPP and the Middle Corridor: the same route can be complementary or a chokepoint. The safeguard is keeping alternatives. That's why Beijing stays relaxed about Western-built infrastructure. #SouthCaucasus #TRIPP #China 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's the opposition's next move after June 2026? MP Arthur Khachatryan breaks down territorial concessions, Azerbaijani threats to Armenian heritage, and the future of Russia's 102nd base. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9bcKTcbPI #Armenia #ArmenianPolitics #TRIPP

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The EU envoy framed whether Gandzasar is Armenian as "deeply diverging views and narratives." The hosts call it false equivalence between history and revisionism. #Artsakh #EU #Gandzasar ▶️ podcasts.groong.org/clip/585-3-eu-d… youtu.be/cVhiM9I1pLQ

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Armenia marks 35 years independent as Turkish-Azerbaijani coordination deepens and Armenian prisoners remain in Baku. The hosts examine statehood, war casualties, and what independence means today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpoM-a445yg #Armenia #SouthCaucasus

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warwick Powell: the real bottleneck for AI isn't chips, it's energy. Information is an energetic artifact, measurable in energy per token. And data center growth is creating electricity haves and have-nots. #AI #Energy #Technology 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pashinyan's reported explanation for rising army deaths: with no enemy shooting, soldiers get lax and fight over who sleeps on watch. The hosts are stunned. #Armenia #Pashinyan #HumanRights ▶️ podcasts.groong.org/clip/584-4-pash… youtu.be/2mSjTCZ2s6c

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Warwick Powell: the American AI business model collapsed when DeepSeek released its first open source model. And the safety debate that followed? Often commercial cover for rebuilding the moat. #AI #China #OpenSource 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The WSJ says the US dangled NVIDIA AI chips to get Armenia onto the TRIPP corridor. Chip licenses can be revoked anytime; the corridor deal runs 99 years. The hosts break down the mismatch. #TRIPP #Armenia #NVIDIA 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Warwick Powell warns of poison pill clauses in U.S. tech deals: Washington gets a veto over any other technology you add. Malaysia lived it, and he says Armenia should check its own agreements. #Armenia #USA #Technology 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How are BRICS and SCO reshaping the global order? Warwick Powell breaks down emerging financial systems, the AI strategic competition between Washington and Beijing, and what multipolarity means for smaller states like Armenia. #Multipolarity www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPkhjzL1URI

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 2012 he wrote that conceding land to Azerbaijan is 'a betrayal.' Then he ran the National Security Council through the loss of Artsakh. And he was born in Martuni. #Artsakh #Armenia #Pashinyan ▶️…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As Pashinyan attends a Paris space summit, a reminder: France helped build and launch Azerbaijan's satellites, later used against Armenia in war. Not CubeSats, billion-dollar ones. #Armenia #Azerbaijan #France 🎦…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

30 army deaths this year vs 11 last year, many non-combat. Conscripts forced to jog a highway at night in gas masks, then run over. We learned it from journalists, not the government. #Armenia #HumanRights #Pashinyan 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

35 years after Artsakh declared independence, its ancient homeland stands empty of its people. The hosts: unless you're ready to disown your own mother, Artsakh is part of your identity. #Artsakh #NagornoKarabakh #Armenia 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An Opposition analyst was jailed over Facebook posts for allegedly plotting to overthrow the state. Months later a court dismissed it. The hosts call it a repeating pattern of pressure on critics. #Armenia #HumanRights #PoliticalPrisoners ▶️…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Firebird data center demands staggering energy. Armenia's education crisis deepens. Nuclear power plant closure looms. Hrant Mikaelian joins Groong to untangle the structural risks behind Armenia's tech ambitions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUEgzBPJZ2E #Armenia #TRIPP #EconomicRisks

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The EU says Armenia can export 6,500 tons of cucumbers tariff-free. Armenia only produces 1,100. That is the cucumber paradox behind the '80% liberalized' headline. #Armenia #EU #Economy 🎥 podcasts.groong.org/clip/584-1-cucu… youtu.be/2mSjTCZ2s6c

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At Gandzasar, an Azerbaijani official flipped through a blank-paged replica of an Armenian manuscript and called Armenian history empty. Foreign diplomats smiled. #Artsakh #Gandzasar #ArmenianChurch 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

September 2022 border war anniversary: four years later, how has Armenia's political and economic landscape shifted? Hovik and Asbed break down Pashinyan's Paris summit appearance, Russian financial flows, and TRIPP's semiconductor implications. #Armenia www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVhiM9I1pLQ

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Suren Sargsyan: Putin & Pashinyan are both dodging the Russian base decision. Armenia talks anti-Russian, but zero concrete actions. Both leaders prefer ambiguity over commitment. #Armenia #Russia #Geopolitics 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Suren Sargsyan: Russia won't outsource the South Caucasus to Iran despite Ukraine pressures. Reason: once you give a competitor dominance, you can't get it back. Better weak positions than none. #Russia #Iran #Geopolitics 🔗…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Suren Sargsyan reveals TRIPP's real architect: Steve Witkoff. The corridor concept dates to the 1990s Goble Plan. Witkoff's team did the heavy diplomatic lifting to make it current reality. #TRIPP #Geopolitics #Armenia 🎥…

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Suren Sargsyan: Armenia's government has zero Plan B if TRIPP fails. No contingencies with Europe, Russia, or Iran. A dangerous concentration of strategic risk. #Armenia #TRIPP #Geopolitics 🔗 podcasts.groong.org/clip/583-2-arme… youtu.be/XMhQm0VCALA

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Suren Sargsyan on Armenia's strategy: avoid sides. "The worst thing for a small country is taking sides when global players are fighting." Strategic ambiguity beats alignment. #Armenia #Geopolitics 🔗 podcasts.groong.org/clip/583-6-arme… youtu.be/XMhQm0VCALA

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Three years after Artsakh's ethnic cleansing, its independence cause still hangs unresolved. This week Hovik and Asbed examine Putin's military base signals, Church prosecutions, EU trade momentum, and mounting army discipline issues ahead of local www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSjTCZ2s6c

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Armenian News Network - Groong @groong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Geopolitical analyst Suren Sargsyan on Trump's Iran war: the admin has no exit strategy, and that gap is creating deeper policy problems. Escalation without endgame = trouble. #IranWar #Geopolitics 🎥 podcasts.groong.org/clip/583-1-trum… youtu.be/XMhQm0VCALA

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