About Armine Sahakyan Armine Sahakyan is a human rights activist based in Armenia. Articles by Armine Sahakyan July 24, 2016, 12:19 pm Armine Sahakyan: The Kremlin should form a commies for Trump group to back the Donald … June 27, 2016, 10:58 pm Armine Sahakyan: Brexit vote jolts EU membership hopes in three former Soviet states June 9, 2016, 7:16 am Armine Sahakyan: How Savchenko adapts to politics will determine whether she will be the … Advertisement May 20, 2016, 12:07 pm Armine Sahakyan: Reaction to NATO missile defense system is just one sign of Russia’s … May 13, 2016, 10:42 am Armine Sahakyan: What to expect from next US ambassador to Ukraine April 14, 2016, 10:37 am Armine Sahakyan: Panama Papers’s Armenia disclosures could help the country address graft Feb. 24, 2016, 8:18 am Armine Sahakyan: Eurasian Economic Union is a good deal for Russia, but no one else Feb. 17, 2016, 12:28 pm Armine Sahakyan: Montenegro is looking like it may be Russia’s next victim Feb. 4, 2016, 9:45 am Armine Sahakyan: Kazakhstan’s dangerous new strategy for silencing the opposition and … Jan. 28, 2016, 4:54 pm Armine Sahakyan: What is Georgia thinking by considering a new Russian gas deal? Jan. 26, 2016, 8:26 am Armine Sahakyan: Why Russia’s soft-power campaign in Georgia will fail Jan. 21, 2016, 10:41 am Armine Sahakyan: The double-edged sword of Russia’s build-up in Armenia Jan. 13, 2016, 11:42 am Armine Sahakyan: Russia using soft power even with its toy poodle Armenia Sept. 5, 2015, 8:07 am Armine Sahakyan: The dark stain of medical-care corruption in the former Soviet Union Aug. 23, 2015, 5:51 pm Armine Sahakyan: It’s time for former Soviet countries to get rid of oligarchs Aug. 16, 2015, 8:57 am Armine Sahakyan: The dehumanizing effect of corruption Aug. 6, 2015, 10:27 pm Armine Sahakyan: Nepotism stunts life in ex-Soviet republics July 26, 2015, 8:42 pm Armine Sahakyan: Armenia could benefit from appointing diaspora, as Georgia and Ukraine … July 22, 2015, 7:51 pm Armine Sahakyan: Russia likely to prevent Armenia from obtaining economic benefits of … July 18, 2015, 11:56 pm Armine Sahakyan: Former Soviet Union is shrugging off sex trafficking of women and … July 10, 2015, 6:54 pm Armine Sahakyan: Government’s cynical soft-touch bid to defang Armenia’s electricity-rate … July 6, 2015, 10:04 am Armine Sahakyan: Investigation of police brutality in Armenian protests will be theater … July 4, 2015, 8:34 am Armine Sahakyan: Armenian leaders need to launch economic reform — or the current protests … June 26, 2015, 3:59 pm Armine Sahakyan: Judicial reform is still a pipe dream in former Soviet Union June 26, 2015, 1:39 am Armine Sahakyan: Russia’s colonialist mentality lives on in Armenia June 24, 2015, 12:45 am Armine Sahakyan: Sad saga of domestic abuse in the former Soviet Union June 20, 2015, 10:55 am Armine Sahakyan: The hydra-headed monster of police corruption in the former Soviet Union June 15, 2015, 5:13 pm Armine Sahakyan: Bureaucracy is key obstacle to protecting children in the former Soviet … June 3, 2015, 11:41 am Armine Sahakyan: Tactics used to stifle the opposition in former Soviet Union May 29, 2015, 6:40 pm Armine Sahakyan: If Ukraine’s new anti-corruption policies succeed, other ex-Soviet states … May 15, 2015, 6:59 pm Armine Sahakyan: Ukraine is worst victim of Russia’s export of human rights abuses April 10, 2015, 7:02 pm Armine Sahakyan: Decision to try murder case in Russian court is Kremlin’s latest outrage … April 4, 2015, 12:02 pm Armine Sahakyan: An outrageous Armenian government move makes the country more of a … March 10, 2015, 2:02 pm Armine Sahakyan: Values, not territory, at stake in Ukraine Feb. 8, 2015, 12:06 pm Armine Sahakyan: How Russia has exported its human rights violations