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Harut Sassounian

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Harut Sassounian

    Did Pashinyan come to New York to address the U.N. or split up Armenian university students? (opens the original)

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    Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has made himself such a controversial figure that his appearances in Armenia and overseas often generate major backlash. Outside of his expected meetings with foreign dignitaries at the U.N., Pashinyan decided to meet in New York City on Sept. 23 with a handful of Armenian American university students who are members of the All-Armenian Student Association (ASA). This is actually the job of Zareh Sinanyan, the “High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs for the Republi

  2. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Harut Sassounian

    Pashinyan makes anti-Armenian statements at international conference in Yerevan (opens the original)

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    Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke on Sept. 17, 2026, at the “Comprehensive Security and Resilience 2026” international conference in Yerevan, organized by the think tank Women & Global Security Architecture. Among those present were the ambassadors of Great Britain and Finland. During his lengthy remarks, Pashinyan made a series of statements that are contrary to Armenia’s national interests, admitting that he has made numerous concessions in the hope of achieving an elusive peace. He describ

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Harut Sassounian

    Pashinyan discourages diaspora Armenians from becoming citizens of Armenia (opens the original)

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    Armenia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is proposing to increase fivefold the fee for obtaining Armenian citizenship and tenfold the fee for renouncing it. As of Jan. 1, 2028, the fee to acquire citizenship would increase from $138 to $689, while the fee to terminate it would increase from $413 to $4,132. The proposal also imposes a stricter residency requirement. These changes will go into effect if approved by parliament. According to this proposal, applicants seeking citizenship would be requi

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Harut Sassounian

    Pashinyan wants to turn Armenia into a country without Armenians (opens the original)

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    Talaat Pasha, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide, wrote in a letter in 1915: “We wanted to leave behind one Armenian, and only in a museum.” If the current disastrous trends in Armenia continue, what Talaat planned to carry out, but did not fully succeed in doing, is being accomplished by the Armenian government. Arsen Torosyan, a high-ranking official of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government, announced in the Armenian parliament in May: “We need to organize immigration, even if it do

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Harut Sassounian

    Can Raphael Lemkin’s relatives force the Lemkin Institute to remove his name? (opens the original)

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    The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organization, was renamed in 2023 to support those who are at risk of becoming victims of genocide and other mass atrocities. The institute was named after Raphael Lemkin (1900-59), a Polish Jewish lawyer and Holocaust survivor who, in 1944, coined the term genocide to describe what until then had been referred to as Armenian massacres. In 1948, after tireless efforts, he succeeded in having the United Nations adopt the

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