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Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch Is Dead
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The song from “The Wizard of Oz” just kept coming to mind as I sat down to write this article. The contrast between the previous Diaspora Minister of the Republic of...
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How Not to Run an Organization: A Parable
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Gar oo chgar/there was and wasn’t (or in English “once upon a time”) a dreamer, Ergonfound, who loved an activity called mostfunthing and, being Armenian, wanted to...
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First Hundred Days
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN As some of you are reading this, others will still be at Glendale’s civic center rallying on the occasion of Nigol Pashinyan’s 100 days in office as the Republic of...
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Of Elephants, Armenia, and the ARF
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN After I mentioned the topic of this piece in a Facebook posting, a friend was insistent that I do a full piece on it, so here goes. “Don’t think of an elephant.” What...
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Pondering Pessimistic Possibilities
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Sometimes undesirable outcomes cross everyone’s mind. Here are five of mine. What if the oligarchic circles in both Armenian republics get their act together and...
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Two Wrongs: Gut and Taxes
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Two otherwise unrelated but Armenia-impacting items caught my eye this week. The first was yet another “brilliancy prize” worthy article by Arye Gut, an...
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Incompetence? Manipulation? Tyranny?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN By now, everyone is aware of the audio recording that went viral on the Internet between the chiefs of the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) National Security Service and...
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Re-Independence, an Election, and the U.N.
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It’s been quite a full Armenian political week. September 21 was the 27th anniversary of the Republic of Armenia’s re-independence. September 23 saw the first...
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European Cure=Armenian Affliction?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN In the post-WWII era, many Europeans became rabidly anti-nationalist, an understandable reaction to the obscene excesses marking that cataclysm. But that natural...
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Revolutionary Elections?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Revolutions don’t need elections, except to consolidate and legitimize what they’ve already achieved. Once elections are being held, or even discussed, a...
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Making Turkey Look Good
Garen Yegparian Turkey’s usual good luck is kicking in again. In the last week, there have been at least three developments that have started neutralizing the damage to Turkey caused by Erdoğan’s...
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Elections 2018
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Yerevan is scheduling elections for December, and we’ll get to that topic in a few weeks. Meanwhile, the U.S. will hold its biennial election on November 6. That’s...
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The (Forgotten) Academic Front
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Last week I had the chance to hear and chat with Ara Sarafian of the Gomidas Institute a few times. For full disclosure – I’ve been assisting in doing some...
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Silly-Stupid-Suspicious Statement Season
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Sorry if this article offends some people, but… tough! You say it, suggest it, speak it in any way, and you own it, with all its attendant ignominy! Perhaps the first...
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Outrageous Inequity from Its Den
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Precious few governments act ethically and morally, and even those do so infrequently. But when an action, in addition to being a- or im-moral and unethical, is also...
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Elections 2018, A Followup
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This was a very exciting U.S. election season, in its own way, even more so than the 2016 presidential cycle that brought to unchecked power the worst president in...
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Trump=Turkey # Two?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It seems like every few years I get an irrepressible urge to toy with the coincidence of Turkey with turkey, right around the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. as...
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Armenian Snap
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN On December 9, the Republic of Armenia will go hold its first “snap” parliamentary elections. The meaning of this may be known to some readers. But, most in the U.S....
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Convulsions
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The Armenian nation has had its share of convulsions. It’s too easy to cite the establishment and Sovietization of the first Armenian republic, Genocide, arrival of...
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Unsurprising Outcome
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN To no one’s astonishment, Nigol Pashinyan’s “My Step” alliance won big in the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) first ever snap elections held on December 9, 2018. And, as...
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