Armenia’s high stakes in the year ahead

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[@avetikharutyunyants9868]

Thank you, Eric and Patric! Great work! Happy New Year!! All the best!

[@kemalkemal7993]

THANKS

[@miqyeznik]

Great interview

[@advenvtech]

Eric is right the real challenge is the energy crisis and prices. This is being seen by several countries.

[@Kingalfred2009]

Good job as always happy new year to all of you guys

[@gagiktovmassian3670]

Thanks for the in-depth and realistic analysis. I have just one comment regarding the political change you argue about. On the one hand, you admit that the economy is doing well, progress in many areas of the economy shows prospects of growth, money collection and absence of economies are pretty good, military reforms are slow but taking place, etc.. But before that, you talk about how much the country needs a change of government and, hopefully, the introduction of a new party. You also speak about the incompetency of the current government. It's all right, and I agree with that. However, do you realize that a new party filling the niche or even the vacuum in the opposition camp is not enough to form a government, even if they are successful in the political field? They will need a cabinet filled with professional, competent people. And that's where the problem is. I don't see enough ready, honest, and willing people to fill that void. Do you? Are there any good candidates for the economy minister, foreign minister, local government or environmental minister, or deputy ministers who are more competent and experienced than the current government already employs? You should address that for the completeness of your analysis.

[@gagiktovmassian3670]

absence of monopolies

[@viggolazar7029]

Not giving current government any credit and purely criticizing for sake of it is becoming ridiculous. Some of us expecting more from this channel and panel.

[@adobo6905]

Eric discounting the remittance contribution from Armenian workers to their families and Armenians in the diaspora purchasing real estate coupled with tourism contributes to sustaining the %5 growth. The IT business is only started 10 years ago.

[@vaheavetian]

They can't adress the issue of exiled writers in 20 years, and talking about shaping the future.

[@balabani]

There has been one business leader who ventured into politics and look wha it brought to Ruben Vardanyan, a probable lifetime jail with no one trying to rescue him except family and close friends.

[@shaqueha.5017]

We are done with current party. We need new parties with fresh start and competent leader who will fight for Armenia and Artsakh and won't give in to aliyevs threats and bullies.

[@owlmirror178]

Explain please, how can a competent opposition fight or what can they do better? Russia sold out Armenia and Artzakh If Georgia is blocking Armenia in favor of Russia, Turkey and Ali? Iran will be in a war or same situation like Syria?

[@noricd]

Without longer form debate-style video conversations there's too little value in these soft magazine style chats. Useful data points, opinion and alerts for prioritisation are shared. But the format of softball Q&A churns out commentary lacking edge. I do not see any shareability or distributability of these chats with a few exceptions once or a bit more a year. More concerning to me is a lack of more thorough working through of assumptions or significant positions taken. As a fan, I am concerned at Hacopian's pro-West and anti-Russian leanings involve no examination of pros and cons or middle grounds. My concern is there is once again no supporting, worked through evidence. A longer video chat time and involving different people asking questions and debating would be helpful for the audience. Currently I come away both doubtful and unconvinced about what is said oh so briefly. Hacopian also remains soft touch in my view on Pashinyan (whose ego is on display weekly in his childish Facebook self-promo fixation videos), though clearly no fan of his.