By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Turkey’s persecution and systematic violation of human rights of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and Jews did not end in 1915. A century after the Genocide, the Turkish government continues to enforce...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Last week, for the second time in recent months, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan dispatched hundreds of police officers and undercover agents in civilian clothing to invade the sacred grounds of...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Over the years, I have been following many polls that tracked the views of Armenia’s population on key social and political issues. All of them have indicated a precipitous decline...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Just when we had lost all hope that the United States government would ever say or do anything to support Artsakh, we were pleasantly surprised to see a letter by...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Just when we thought that the situation in Armenia could not get any worse, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has devised new ways to destroy the country. During Pashinyan’s collapsing tenure,...
With each passing day, Armenia is sliding further into dictatorship. The vulgar, even pornographic, language Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has used against the Catholicos of All Armenians and other senior clergy is utterly unbecoming...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com In a rare move, the Republic of Armenia recently hired an American lobbying firm to promote Armenia’s interests in the United States. Several years ago, the Armenian government hired another...
As if we didn’t already have enough disputes among Armenians, a new argument surfaced last week between Arman Babajanyan, head of a minor pro-Western political party that supports Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and former...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made yet another mistake last week by inviting 10 journalists from Turkey to Yerevan and speaking to them for one and a half hours. Before we go into the substance...
I just received the first volume of a valuable book published in Yerevan in 2021 that makes public for the first time some of the 8,000 handwritten letters by survivors of the 1894-96 Turkish...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Turkey’s persecution and systematic violation of human rights of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and Jews did not end in 1915. A century after the Genocide, the Turkish government continues to enforce racist, exclusionary, and discriminatory policies against these minority groups. In recent months, some pro-Pashinyan Armenians...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Last week, for the second time in recent months, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan dispatched hundreds of police officers and undercover agents in civilian clothing to invade the sacred grounds of Holy Etchmiadzin. They are supposed to serve the public, not Pashinyan’s personal interests. They should...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Over the years, I have been following many polls that tracked the views of Armenia’s population on key social and political issues. All of them have indicated a precipitous decline in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s popularity from 82% in 2018, when he first ascended to...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Just when we had lost all hope that the United States government would ever say or do anything to support Artsakh, we were pleasantly surprised to see a letter by a high-ranking State Department official who stated all the right things in defense of Artsakh....
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Just when we thought that the situation in Armenia could not get any worse, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has devised new ways to destroy the country. During Pashinyan’s collapsing tenure, we lost Artsakh, after 4,000 Armenian soldiers were killed and many more wounded in the...
With each passing day, Armenia is sliding further into dictatorship. The vulgar, even pornographic, language Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has used against the Catholicos of All Armenians and other senior clergy is utterly unbecoming of a head of government. Facebook recently deleted one of his posts for its offensive...
By Harut Sassounian www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com In a rare move, the Republic of Armenia recently hired an American lobbying firm to promote Armenia’s interests in the United States. Several years ago, the Armenian government hired another Washington lobbying firm, but only for a short period. Due to a lack of appreciation...
As if we didn’t already have enough disputes among Armenians, a new argument surfaced last week between Arman Babajanyan, head of a minor pro-Western political party that supports Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and former Foreign Minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian. On April 8, 2025, Babajanyan wrote on his Facebook...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made yet another mistake last week by inviting 10 journalists from Turkey to Yerevan and speaking to them for one and a half hours. Before we go into the substance of Pashinyan’s remarks, I would like to point out some of the basic problems with...
I just received the first volume of a valuable book published in Yerevan in 2021 that makes public for the first time some of the 8,000 handwritten letters by survivors of the 1894-96 Turkish massacres of 300,000 Armenians in Western Armenia (present-day Turkey), organized by Sultan Abdul Hamid II....
