Mark Nalbandian

Politics and Economics aficionado. Speaking 🇦🇲, 🇬🇧, 🇷🇺, 🇩🇪

[Babken Matevosyan @BabkenArm]

Old-school Twitter thread on yesterday's Armenia elections #armvote26 — a few observations:

1. The main opposition was heavily constrained by being perceived as pro-Russian, which probably alienated around half of the electorate. Ru's image did not recover after Karabakh.

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@PAHoyeck @drewddahlin What does that circle show though?

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@PAHoyeck @drewddahlin Ah, missed that

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@PAHoyeck @drewddahlin Not Ayer?

[OC Media @OCMediaorg]

Late Monday morning, Armenia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced the initial election results, according to which Prosperous Armenia fell slightly under the threshold of four percent, and therefore would not enter parliament.

🔴Armenia live updates: https://t.co/gsn2t5ltgM

[Sound Dobad @SoundDobad]

Yes, fellow human, I too enjoy beverages. It is important for hydration and general health

[Hov Nazaretyan @HovhanNaz]

Armenian election final turnout: 59%

full ten percentage points higher than in 2021

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@RichardHanania And now it can be packaged by “isn’t it better if they help develop their countries?”

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@DrKevorkO Is that how Russia sees it?

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@vartan84 @RobertKocharyan reminds me of this verse (except the reverse)

[Dimitar Bechev @DimitarBechev]

The Balkans winning the race

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@HayastanPapist Religion 🇻🇦?

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The modern (18-19th C.) nation-state.

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization."

"The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said.

"In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

Reading Magnifica Humanintas now. Feeling like I’m close to the part where the Pope declares a new crusade against the Silicon Valley.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

There's a 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% chance Trump had any idea what Xi was referring to.

[Mark Nalbandian @econmarkn]

@OrthodoxOrigen Dionysius?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Incorrect: Armenian is gender-neutral, making it difficult to speak Arabic (where verbs, adjectives, & adverbs are fully gendered), prompting the joke that someone buys gifts for their father on mother's day.

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

We have identified the “investors”