Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), has launched a nation wide on line letter writing and calling campaign asking Armenians in USA to join the campaign by writing and calling to their U.S representatives to urge President Trump to recognize the Armenian Genocide. At the end of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Year in 2015, the… Continue reading Here we go again.

February 16 is the deadline for Political Parties (Parties) to present their list of candidates for the next parliamentary elections which is only seven days away. So far non of the Parties has done so. With the new electoral code, basically, voters elect Parties and not candidates. Party leadership and “back room boys”select and appoint… Continue reading Parliamentary Elections in Armenia.

The heading of this monologue is the title of a conference that took place at USC’ Institute of Armenian Studies in L.A. on January 29. It was on the internet and I watched it live on my computer. The conference was  organized to discuss “examples of functional and dysfunctional governance and electoral politics of Armenia”.… Continue reading Celebrity Diplomacy