Thanksgiving and Mourning
By Skylar Yoder While thanksgiving is traditionally a North American holiday, I had the pleasure of celebrating it in Armenia this year. At CivilNet, several of my colleagues went out of their way to...
View ArticleWhat will it take to have a landmine-free South Caucasus?
Benyamin Poghosyan is the Chairman of the Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies, an organization that has been working with the EU-supported Links Europe organization since 2019 to...
View ArticleTrade war fears grow as Armenian trucks pile up at Russian border: THIS WEEK...
Hundreds of Armenian trucks remain stalled at a key border crossing between Georgia and Russia, prompting Yerevan to take the rare step of calling an emergency meeting of a Moscow-led trade bloc. A...
View ArticleInsider Perspective on Armenia’s Military Transformation
In this episode, host Patrick Elliott interviews Regional Studies Center director Richard Giragossian. They discuss Giragossian’s analysis of ongoing military reforms in Armenia and structural...
View ArticleArmenia Launches Its First Satellite
On December 1, Armenia’s first domestically made satellite “Hayasat-1” was launched by a SpaceX rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The project is a collaboration between Yerevan’s...
View ArticleHow the Social Fabric Works: A Conversation With Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a globally renowned thinker and philosopher best known for his “black swan theory,” visited Armenia last week. He sat down with CivilNet’s Eric Hacopian to talk about science,...
View ArticleArmenia says its side of border with Turkey ready for operation
The trial of Gagik Voskanyan, an Armenian reservist who crossed into Azerbaijan in August in still-unclear circumstances, began in Baku. Armenia again raised the issue of Russia’s alleged failure to...
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Cultural Heritage at Risk in Nagorno-Karabakh
Last month’s election of Azerbaijan to a senior position of the United Nations’ cultural body has raised concern regarding the fate of cultural monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh, given the organization’s...
View ArticleArmenian opposition mayor ousted: ‘Is this what Pashinyan’s democracy looks...
By Mark Dovich Local lawmakers from the Civil Contract party have ousted a prominent opposition mayor in Armenia, the latest in a string of instances where the ruling party has appeared to obstruct or...
View ArticleArmenia’s parliament rejects Karabakh ballot initiative
One Armenian soldier was killed by Azerbaijani fire along the two countries’ border, marking the first known army death in action since the fall of Karabakh in September. Pro-government lawmakers in...
View ArticleArmenian court converts Azerbaijani soldier’s prison term to life sentence
Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev insisted he is willing to sign a normalization agreement with Armenia in the near future, even while blaming Yerevan for delays in the peace process. An Armenian court...
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AND IN OTHER NEWS: Aliyev Rides High on the Wave of Ethnic Cleansing
when your narcissistic bottomless ego makes you proudly admit to your crimes… even Hannibal Lecter had better sense. https://t.co/LR7m9AeqXq— Sheila Paylan (@SheilaPaylan) November 10, 2023 November...
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Letter from Instanbul: Turkish Republic of Impunity
By Rober Koptaş Last month, just days after Hrant Dink’s murderer was released, leaving a significant wound in the public’s collective consciousness just sixteen years after the murder, a news story...
View ArticleToward a generational handover in Armenian studies
If there is one symptom of Armenia’s military defeat in the autumn of 2020, it is unquestionably this cognitive collapse: the revelation of a deep-seated crisis in political thinking characterised by...
View ArticlePutin’s economic war on Armenia
This week’s episode of Insights discusses three major events impacting Armenia – the recent launching of the country’s first satellite, the vulnerabilities exposed by the country’s economic dependence...
View ArticleCan Armenia emerge as a transport and transit powerhouse?
In this episode of the Civilnet podcast, host Patrick Elliott interviews Hovsep Patvakanyan, Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Investment Council for Armenia. They discuss...
View ArticlePashinyan suggests in parliament he has no responsibility for Karabakh crisis
A senior State Department official has indicated the United States remains willing to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan after high-level meetings in Baku. Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan again insisted...
View ArticleArmenia, Azerbaijan announce prisoner exchange deal
By Mark Dovich In a rare joint statement Thursday, Armenia and Azerbaijan said they will exchange detainees for the first time in more than a year. Baku will hand over 32 Armenian prisoners of war in...
View ArticleIran and India push for trade route through Armenia: THIS WEEK IN BUSINESS
Iran and India talked up the importance of Armenia’s inclusion in a proposed trade route that would significantly reduce the cost of moving freight across the region. 2.2 million tourists visited...
View ArticleDuduk: Jivan Gasparyan Jr. on creating a legacy
CivilNet met with renowned duduk player, Jivan Gasparyan Jr. at the Armenian Music Society, where he spoke about the soulful nature of the ancient instrument. Visiting Armenia on the occasion of...
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