ArmInfo About 180 bloggers in Armenia were funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as noted  by Stanford University professor Artur Khachikyan.  "Attention, attention: recent information reveals that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has sponsored about 180 bloggers in Armenia, totaling  $20 million (US$20,000,000) per year. How do you like this democracy? How do you like this corruption?  Manipulating public opinion in another country  and leading to a catastrophe," the political scientist posted on his  Facebook page.

ArmInfo. US President's National Security Advisor Michael Waltz in a conversation with the National Security Advisor of Azerbaijan made it clear that US President Donald Trump would like to see the release of Armenian prisoners as part of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan. According to a message received by ArmInfo, Jared Genser, International Legal Advisor on Legal Issues of the former Minister of State of Artsakh, Ruben Vardanyan, stated this in an interview with the famous American host and lawyer Hugh Hewitt.

ArmInfo. US President Donald Trump is looking forward to Azerbaijan and Armenia signing a long-awaited peace treaty, Eric Jacobs, a senior adviser of the State  Bureau of Energy Resources of the US Department of State, said on  Friday.

ArmInfo. Despite the bellicose  rhetoric of the current US President Donald Trump towards Iran, it is  unlikely that real military action will take place between the  countries.  Political scientist and Director of the Caucasus  Institute Alexander Iskandaryan stated this in a conversation with  journalists during the international conference in Yerevan  "Haik-Iran: A Thousand-Year Neighborliness".

ArmInfo. The unexpected "landing" in Baku of Trump's adviser on the Middle East and Ukraine Steve Witkoff and US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Twitter  (X) is an attempt to keep Azerbaijan (Turkey) from adventurism and  prevent tensions in the South Caucasus. Americanist Suren Sargsyan  holds a similar opinion.

ArmInfo. Using the opportunities of the changing world, it is possible to succeed in releasing the Armenian hostages by increasing pressure on Azerbaijan and changing the content of the trial. This was stated by political scientist, co-founder of the Alternative Projects group Vahe Hovhannisyan.

ArmInfo. French Ambassador to Armenia Olivier Decottignies is lying when he claims that Armenia has allegedly recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan since the  Alma-Ata Declaration, based on the fact that Artsakh was part of  Soviet Azerbaijan. This was stated by the leader of the Mother  Armenia opposition faction in the Yerevan Council of Elders Andranik  Tevanyan, responding to Decottignies' statements that Armenia has  recognized the NKR as part of Azerbaijan since the Alma-Ata  Declaration.

ArmInfo.Turkey's interference in Abkhazia's politics is just a myth and the result of pre-election  PR. This was stated by political scientist, director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan in an interview with an ArmInfo correspondent.

ArmInfo. Stanford University political science doctor Artur Khachikyan predicts a  discussion of a small new "Yalta", on a smaller scale, with a  possible outline of a new sphere of influence in Europe, the  Caucasus, the Middle East, Central Asia, and other regions after a  telephone conversation between Russian and US President Vladimir  Putin and Donald Trump.

ArmInfo. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius addressed the ongoing sham trial of former Artsakh state minister and philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan in Baku and called on US President Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to help Christians. 

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's visit to Washington had but one single goal: to understand if the new US President Donald Trump's  administration will continue to offer the same political support he  had received from the Biden administration, according to Americanist  Suren Sargsyan.

ArmInfo.Catholicos Aram I has appealed to US President Donald Trump to take action to release  Armenian prisoners illegally held in Azerbaijani prisons.  In his message, Aram I referenced Trump's previous statements condemning Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population in Artsakh. 

ArmInfo. American-Armenian Michael Kavoukjian will serve as the next US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway. This was announced by US President Donald Trump on his page in Truth.

ArmInfo. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will resume its operations, including in Armenia, in the next 3-6 months. However, it will now function under the auspices of the US State Department and with a more efficient agenda.  Sergey Minasyan, Deputy Director of  the Caucasus Institute and a Doctor of Political Science, shared a  similar opinion in an interview with ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. The document on strategic partnership signed between Armenia and the United States is an institutional mechanism that does not depend on the ruling political team in Washington or directly on various political factors  taking place in the United States.  Deputy Foreign Minister of  Armenia Paruyr Hovhannisyan said this in an interview with  Armenpress.

ArmInfo. Despite torture and all the personal threats in Baku, the issue of the rights of the people of Artsakh continues to be important to my father. This was stated by David Vardanyan, the son of the former state minister of  Nagorno-Karabakh, philanthropist Ruben Vardanyan, in an interview  with the Armenian radio station AYPFM in France 

ArmInfo. Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan issued a statement calling on Diaspora representatives to ignore Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's visit to the United States, not to meet with him in Washington, and thus not to provide him with the legitimacy he so desperately needs.

ArmInfo.The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has called on newly sworn-in  U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio to consider continuing humanitarian aid to Artsakh refugees, amidst the suspension of all foreign aid for a period of 3 months.  

ArmInfo. The Charter on Strategic Partnership between the United States and Armenia signed in Washington does not provide Yerevan with any security guarantees.  This was stated at a press conference on January 27 by international expert Suren Sargsyan, who specializes in the United States. 

ArmInfo. Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan congratulated Michael Waltz on his appointment as National Security Advisor to US President Donald Trump.