treaty with the u. s. government should not be the final say on who was a member of that tribes. they should be sovereignty as far, but sovereignty does not give you the right to discriminate against the people. and that's essentially what's happening. grayson, who's been leading efforts over turn, the new laws, sees other motivations. it's about green and it's about racism is the core of the entire issue. that's it. efforts to pressure the tribes to reverse their exclusionary policies have been successful in the courts. in 2017, the cherokee nation was forced to abandon pounds to expel it's friedman cherokees or people. and unfortunately, in this world, there still people who are racist. i think the vast majority of charities are not the u. s. congress is getting involved, threatening to withhold funding if other tribes did reverse course. and it seems to be working some say they will open a dialogue on the issue, but it is fraught on the face of it. the federal government is overtly intervening and tribal affairs. however, since a supreme court ruling in 2020,

the tribes arguments are excluding freedman have become shakia. muskogee creek tribe argued ro talerie from the federal government, its basis the 1866 treaty with the federal government and the tribe one. but it's that same treaty that gave freedom and full rights as tribal members fioma, edward creek, all grayson's tribe. and she's determined that friedman, numbers, both living and dead, will soon be able to reclaim their identity. she ever tansy al jazeera, broken arrow oklahoma on this is al jazeera. these are your top stories, iran's hardline chief of the judiciary abraham racy his one friday's presidential election. however, the voter turnout was the lowest in the history of the islamic republic. the us state department says iranians were denied a free and fair election process, but washington will continue negotiations to save the 2015 nuclear deal by the

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ah ah, the 1st they love the color color by the, by john now i mean is lead as a struggling, the survival of people goes to polls and early general electron. so how will love just wall shape the vote and come the outcome and the political crisis in armenia is inside story. ah, ah, welcome to inside story with me. the whole rahman, on sunday armenians will vote in a 2nd parliamentary snap election in less than 3 years. for political blocks and 22

parties, the gang up against caretaker prime minister, nicole pushing young who stepped down in april, following months of protest demanding his resignation. when he called him a traitor for signing a p, steal that ended 6 weeks of fighting in the corner, car bar, but return swathes of territory to armine. as long standing rival as the by john for former leaders are running in sundays vote, including robert hardy, and who's seen as an opposition from trying to really challenge reports from young and what's being described as the most competitive elections in armenian modern history. this election should not be happening for another 2 years, and there's only one reason why it is. and that is, armine is devastating defeat last year in a conflict with as a by john had his allied turkey over the disputed region. nicole and i can go back to prime minister nicole passion yet over the only way out of the suing political

crisis was to call early elections. there are a dizzying array of candidates, some 26 different parties and blocks, but basically it boils down to a 2 horse right between virginia and his main rival, the former president, robert cherry. and now you might think that any prime minister who lost such a devastating and humiliating war would be political history. and the polls are heights almost, neck and neck. but most of the people that we be speaking to here, the analysts are expecting nicole passion to win. now katrina is trying to rally and galvanize the mc question in vote. but regardless of who wins the election, the challenges that face to victor are daunting. there is a traumatized nation. there is economics, various development, there is security. yes, an election might solve some of these issues, but it's certainly going to be no kind of see. well, let's take

a look at recent key developments in the lead up to the election. last november, a russian broken sci fi and the 6 week conflict between as airy and ethnic armenian false is in the enclave of nicole. nicola, that you're locked into rhetorical gains for as a by john in january, russian president vladimir putin hosted the 1st postwar talks between the leaders as a by john and armenia. analysts say russia's peacekeepers thought it a stronger military presence from turkey. the banks as a by john and in april armenian prime minister nichol passion, yon stepped down over criticism of his handling of the conflict. he said he wants to return power to the people, so they can decide the government's future through free and fair elections. last week, back he handed over 15 prisoners of war and exchange for a map of detailing the location of land mines in the region, seated by armenia. but tensions remain in the corner with sporadic fighting between as a bi johnny and armenian troops. the,

let's bring in august for this edition of inside story, some yerevan had a new can, who's an election systems consultant for transparency, international, armenia, and from moscow, vladimir, so it called a political scientist at the russian academy of sciences. an awesome herat young is an i mean, the analyst and former advisor to the armenian prime minister, nicole pushing the i'm thank you gentlemen, for joining us on this edition of inside story heard renewed again. can i come to you 1st? how much of the selection is about the aftermath of the recent conflict with as the by john, and how much is it about the issues of the economy, education, and health care? i should say, it's all about the aftermath of the conflict growth as a john. so after the cease fire agreement was signed on the night of november 9th, immediately protest and even that night, in fact,

there are some instances of violence with government buildings being broken into. and those protests continued afterwards for several months. and really the trigger was an announcement in march or started in late february where senior military officials had joined calls for the resignation of the prime minister. and so this early election, so this is ahead of the normal 5 year term for armina. armina is parliamentary elections and the reason this early election was called was basically to get a new mandate for the new called passion on civil contract party government. and so we'll find out tomorrow if it will be in the we will find that out. but, you know, without going it will go into all of this more detail. i mean, in terms of the lead up to the war was the satisfaction, in your opinion, mister man, you know that mister passionate was doing a good job, or was that always discontent?

since the start and continuation of the velvet revolution, i would say leading up almost to the very end of the war, there was wide satisfaction with the results of the revolution was wide satisfaction with anti corruption reforms that had been taking place. there was an electoral reform process with which i was personally involved for the last 2 years . and really it was, it was the result of this war that kind of broke the back of that process and hadn't been in washington dc. your man very close to the prime minister as he, as he sits for the time being as the, the standing until the elections are concluded. what you generally pression of the situation of the country up to this particular point and mister passion, the ends not just behavior, but his record up to now from bringing the people with him to now having a large majority of them. not so supportive. thank you. thank you for having me on

insight story before i get to the question which relate to our previous speaker, i would actually like to disagree with your heart on whether there was a wide satisfaction. i mean, we are all part of the society also, and we've been following how slowly reel fundamental reforms were taking place or need no reforms were taking place. and this most not didn't necessarily have to do with the political will. i believe that the pre, the passion administration did have the political will, but the reality on no serious area like the judiciary reformed like the bedding of the judges. like many other areas of security forces, police and other areas we haven't seen actually much of the reform. and that actually created a lot of that. i would say a police discontent. discontent might be a strong ward, but a lot of concern is among especially civil society players,

especially those who have been very active in pushing forward the reform agenda. the several factors definitely play dean and both internal and external. a lot of the problems with the fake news media, not that are owned by a lot of the previous regime but also or larger players, both regional and global. we not much engagement with. ready people or groups that might be the forefront of the reform agenda from the outside players. and of course democracy spoilers that have been pretty much a sport trying to, i would say disqualified the results or the very the very fact of the revolution of 2018 if it was a 100, if i missed and i missed it before, you know, because i'm trying to expand the conversation if there was not much discontent, was that just another reason for the way you say other groups such as the military

civil service, we were not very happy with the way the government were performing. and this was an underbelly, a chance for outside forces to do what they did know i would still agree with that . the, the reason why the collections are happening is really the war. the devastating award that we had last year. the aggression by us or by john and turkey, with the mysteries fighting against armenians in kara bar. and this was definitely the largest. i mean, one thing we have to realize is that the car conflict as much as we want to talk about it or not has been instrumental in shaping up the new identity of cur, the armenia. and i think the realization of how important it is to address car conflict in order to be able to move forward. i don't think what's fully relied but, but the military and the behavior by different government agencies was not directly linked to watch the passions ministration was doing. it was of course, also the result of the war,

but also issues with regard to governance. a promise that was given in 2018 government governance in general as an institutional approach. and as a reform agenda that i don't believe has been really addressed properly. okay. not to be suddenly caught in moscow. i think analyst not just in moscow, but globally would be very interested in what's going on in the caucuses right now . how is moscow in terms of viewing what's going on right now? reacting maybe not right now. they will react and draft the result itself. but how have they been reacting to armenia as plight in the last 12 months and what is had to go through? thank you very much for having me in this show inside story. thank you. what i would like to say before answering fully a question is that from the very 1st of days, also the last gulf between those are about john in the media. i mean, you know that john, whatever was school was for the integrity of for

media and checking to see if a media and the more square actually had the brokers of a good deal. this is fire between between. i mean it does that about john and so it's very important for moscow to have a peaceful neighbor, neighbor in the caucasus moscow also would like to see more stable relationship with the media. what channel the results would be on the tomatoes election. another thing which i would like to, to, to note is, sorry, sorry, i just lost my thought. ok. and another thing which ma school would like to see is the because it doesn't have any preferences for any candidate. but i would like to say that the action prime minister in the past made some on de credit onto moscow sentiments. and that's why the attitude, the general attitude, the problem is at the soft mistrust to the present

authorities. indeed, about 200000000 in yada and obviously you know, the big questions for the pushy she and patricia and can actually hold on to power when there are many of you might say the old guard and those as even mister sot nickle perhaps alluded to that that may be some in armenian politics that favor a much closer relationship with russia. and this is going to be the real dilemma for the voters on sunday. certainly of the 25 political parties that have been registered in the election. and obviously, only a few of them will make it into parliament. really. the consensus is that armina doesn't really have alternatives available. other than a strategic partnership with russia. as mentioned, certainly pushing on represents this concept of color,

revolution type of movement. however, the reality is that after the war, he's firmly, even before the war, the question of army, there's participation in the region economic union, the collective heat security treaty organization is never came under question. and sort of there is this consensus that are, you know, will be working with russia and frankly, as a result of the war, a lot of army and saw the type of response from european and north american partners during the war. and, and they saw that there, there is not going to be a possibility to rely on them in the, in the security sphere. and currently there are real threats. there's or as b, johnny soldiers have crossed the border into the republic of armenia. i believe the last number was there was about a 1000 troops, several kilometers into the borders. i don't think we will. i think touch upon that

later in the problem that we just wanna focus just on the election 1st. because the g, a publisher don't see, fits into that very, very neatly also and how to be on it in washington, d. c for the electra did. armenia is, is a choice between sort of arrogance and corruption of the past. versus you might see the politically not even the reckless nature of the current administration is a real choice for the electorate in armenia on sunday. i think the polls that we've been following have shown it, and i think over 40 percent nearing 50 percent of the people are undecided. and i think that it's choosing between basically the 2 evils. right now for many people that i know it is also about giving a 2nd chance to pushing young. i don't know how much of that is going to happen. the polls the pull results will show did the elections control tomorrow. i really hope that the elections will be conducted in the best possible transparent way. and this is the key thing for democracy. i mean, yeah, and for pushing in administration to begin with. no administrative starts is being

used. we've been following different processes already, but the big, big, big, big picture will be more visible tomorrow. and i do hope that there will be no post election. a negative developments. i would have to the a tier that probably in the ninety's. this is the 1st time when armina will have really the most unpredictable elections. nobody can really say what the outcome of the elections will be. but i do really want to touch upon a point by vladimir our colleague in moscow. we think that while we are russia doesn't almost go, doesn't really have any favorite. yes. directly vladimir putin or others in the kremlin, are not showing any favoritism but proclaimed in hybrid media. organizations have been demonized administration for years now. number one, number 2, i agree that there may be some sentiment that can be considered as anti criminal by pushing young. i believe that this is mostly because of a lack of experience. there have been mistakes made, but there have also been fundamental decisions that have been made like, for example, right after the revolution,

sending armenian doctors and the miners to syria, which was not happening before on the bigger picture. i think that pushing himself into rhetoric, or by making mistakes, he might have the way degradation relations with moscow. but i think in general, within the army and public because of what happened as an, as a result of this war, how russia behaved in this war, yet it did come in at some point after 44 days to broke her, a deal, an announcement that stopped the bloodshed, but it also did not really come to the expectation levels of the armenian people where the strategic partnership for over 3 decades now. with russia were expected to, to, to gain much more, to have a different level of engagement. that at least the perception of the 1000000 public heads, i think, in general, and i'll allow stopping effect in general. there is a lot that is being discussed within the medium public. and i think that one thing that we should be very careful about is that armenia and the unions, you know,

i mean, you're not really haven't a russian sentiment, though, the puting crumbling should be very careful in going deeper in creating the sentiment that i don't think is going to result in anything positive. and i, mr. mandy, again, is not agreeing, but i want to get back to me as suddenly coffee moscow, because it does suit. perhaps russia's needs right now to have a neighbor that is slightly pro moscow, but also has been democratically elected in a world at the moment where democracy and the issue of democracy is so hotly debated, especially when it comes around elections. this is sort of a win win for moscow. really, isn't it? yes, it is actually, a criminal doesn't have anything against the democratic. that's really the democratic election is actually more i would like to say that to my mind, william, unfortunately, russian lead. i actually don't want to have any gratian though, i mean the situation off of that is also the election. we, we actually,

we stand for the matter what some of the results will be. we will have to see what will be there to, to offer the media. and then you all the, all the media authorities to the development of the nation with russia and between the, between the elected leader of a 1000000 people and between rational presidents or whoever will be in our rush. so i would like to say that my prediction is probably in the 2nd tour of election i. it seems to me just regularly that the rubber got turned on. good reason. but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that the nicole of watching on could take could take oh, good check the necessary amount of boats and you will be again, the leader of, i mean it's all this fight all lisa elections. i mean, this is very important. funny people, and i would like to say that russia actually, traditionally, i agree with my american to lick of that russia, traditionally, all,

all this supported. i mean, it caused me that i mean, the amber, all the problems with my going to come back. this is they had they then had to from this all the products and the bolshevik. okay. actually i think that for, for, for moscow, whatever the choice of, i mean people will be more school would like to develop good and stable and probably again starting partnership with, with you all the for the social media. thank you. ok. that's bringing her to attend a new kid bucket and yet of, and i mean one of the candidates this up for the election as well. but took her child in, as mentioned by my colleague where we challenge president between what 98 to 2008, he had the armenia block, he's pro moscow. but also he had a very interesting statement. he said that he wanted to rebuild national security and regain last territories. it sounds like he might want to go to war or might to

start or might want to start controversy again. is that a real concern to you? as a, as an armenian and to maybe some people in the electorate. so one of the slogans probably cause i official slogan of the army airlines that robert coach needs is everything is going to be okay. and the implication of that, although, although it was the 1st president of armina who is also running in this election level, and john said that cultural you on statement implied a restart or shut down, was heavily involved in the negotiating in the peace negotiations. during his tenure his his implication that he is saying with that statement is that i have the standing to negotiate the return of the hug, root and shoe. she areas which were part of the nagondo car park autonomy or

blustering sophia times, but are now under control of azerbaijan. and sort of that, that was a new development as a result of the war and so called charlie on is, is implying, not really not really explaining how he plans to get there other than his standing with, with the players around the table. i'll see how to at the, on, in washington dc earlier how route over in europe. i did mention the global political scene and that attitude to the war. there was a noticeable silence or a sort of acceptance of what was going verbal condemnation of what was of the conflict itself, but not much more from the u. s. not much more from the e. u, as if, you know, we need this to play out. and get it over one thing for all because you know, we're not going to get involved in the caucuses. let russia and turkey sorted out. it's not the sort of general impression you got. well,

we have to bear in mind that the war was happening under a different administration in washington, the trumpet ministration, which had very different type of relations with turkey and with russia. number number to the overall u. s. foreign policy, whatever it was under the trump administration, i think it was quite an ambiguous one, but was about disengagement from many regions including the middle east and the caucasus and elsewhere saw the silence or whatever. i think among other things definitely was because of the different political administration here as soon as the power changed in america. and i think that's part of the reason why the timing of the attack by us there, by john in 30 was piques. it was right. the election time was it was the campaign period. nobody really was going to be very active in foreign policy. and of course, the pandemic and many other factors that play didn't the timing of when did the attack happen? so i think that was very carefully calculated. as for you, i do think that you had could have done much more. there were several statements by

the european parliament than others, but it was mostly of the humanitarian nature when it comes to the international law . another aspect, i think we have, we are minions. first the we'll probably have to go back and retrospectively analyze, where did we go wrong with what we were talking or doing with regards to an or no car box and not only ministration, but the predecessors as well. one quick comment on robert koch, heidi and agreed with don. oh yeah, i'm going to it's all going to be okay. but also very clearly talking about deeper level of integration with russia. whatever that means and just facts. i mean, yesterday as his rally quite a large rally and a b if you wish, a demonstration of power, you could feel that rational lack. so nobody is hiding from wherever. and i think our colleague from russia has been talking about the 2nd tour. it's interesting that i would like to hear why you think there will be a 2nd tour,

although the 2nd round of elections, it might very well be. but it's interesting how, how all, all of the, i mean, pretty much every party that has a chance to get into the parliament has not been doubting the overall strategic nature of armenia, russia, relations. it's about how we're going to move forward, dr. des, and what are the lessons learned, especially after the devastating war that we had last year? ok, we all coming to the end of the program, the final question really, to her route time and again in yerevan very quickly. so can this election draw a line under the issues and can one candidate really offer long term peace and prosperity that the public in armenia so daily deserves? i think the most important aspect of the election is going to be fixed confession by whoever does not win. and it's not clear at this point who that's who that's going to be. but in past elections, we've often seen in armenia,

a lot of post election protests, and that kind of instability might draw out political issues and instability. and my hope is that the electoral system has, let me mention there is this ability to have a 2nd round. there will be a majority insured at some point. it might take until july 18 for that to happen. osha, see what happens. so then we have to leave it that gentleman. thank you very much. much her route. many again in yerevan vladimir stopped me. cough in moscow oss and how they had gone in washington dc. gentlemen, thanks for joining us on this edition of inside story and of course thank you for watching as well. you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website at all, just have it dot com. and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha, inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle. there is page a inside story from me,

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