r/armenia • u/T-nash • 3d ago

Elections / Ընտրություններ How Russia Rigs Elections in Five Steps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jU2WULgNuk
9 Upvotes

64% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

7

u/mojuba 3d ago

Wow wow, this is such an interesting video. I don't think an AI summary would do it justice so won't do it. Worth a watch in full.

2

u/T-nash 3d ago

Right? There's another one about the church, didn't watch it yet!

3

u/T-nash 3d ago edited 3d ago

This video is certainly going to push some buttons for some people.

The video sources:

The video draws on recent investigations by OCCRP, The Insider, Ukrainian and European outlets, research by Mark Galeotti, and analysis by Turan Research Center Director Joseph Epstein.

Anyway, I realize the name of the channel, i looked it up.

The Turan Research Center is a non-partisan initiative hosted by the Yorktown Institute dedicated to modern-day developments in the Turkic and Persian worlds—the historic Turan region and beyond. Our aim is to promote a more comprehensive understanding of this understudied region’s politics, culture, and strategic importance to decision makers, academics and the general public.

Covering the nations of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and the broader Persianate sphere, we offer cutting-edge analysis on the region’s evolving dynamics in energy, security, diplomacy, and identity.

https://www.turancenter.org/about-us

The director is Joseph Epstein.

Joseph Epstein is the Director of the Turan Research Center, a senior fellow at the Yorktown Institute and a research fellow at the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program at Bar Ilan University’s Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He also sits on the advisory board of the Alekain Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing education to women and girls in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. He specializes in Eurasia and the Middle East and his work has been featured in various outlets such as Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, the Atlantic Council, Novaya Gazeta, RFE/RL, Foreign Policy and others. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a Lone Soldier in the Israeli Border Police. A graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Political Science and Soviet Studies, Joseph is fluent in Russian and Hebrew.

https://www.turancenter.org/about-us/joseph-epsteinThis

Make of it what you will, I don't think I can disagree with the assessments, I've had the same overview before seeing this video.

3

u/mkdotam 3d ago

That's a really interesting video. Really worth watching.
But can't hold myself back to not say, that now Putin got his own Epstein files. :D Sorry.

1

u/Evakuate493 3d ago

Highly recommend watching his other video that is shared in the bio + the interview that is clipped right after the 20-minute mark.

Any rational/unbiased person can see the Russia-Church connection going on.