Armenian, Azerbaijani presidents sign border delimitation protocols
The European Parliament adopted a resolution, condemning human rights abuses and international law violations by Azerbaijan. Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev discussed bilateral normalization agenda...
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Massive fish farming threatens Armenia’s Ararat Valley water system
Landlocked Armenia has become a significant fish producer, generating over 25,000 tons annually—rivaling exports from its coastal neighbor Georgia. Nearly half of this production heads to...
View ArticleGeorgian Elections and Armenia: What to Expect
By Lia Avagyan The ruling Georgian Dream party secured a decisive victory in Georgia’s parliamentary elections on October 26, winning 54% of the votes and claiming 89 seats in the 150-member...
View ArticleA pragmatic space doctrine for Armenia’s national security
By Jack Dulgarian Yerevan’s biggest challenge is adjusting its defense doctrine and national security apparatus at a time following catastrophic defeat and ethnic cleansing while located in the most...
View ArticleOpposition-aligned mayor of Gyumri resigns
The ruling Georgian Dream party won Georgia’s parliamentary elections; Pashinyan congratulated the country’s incumbent prime minister on victory. Vardges Samsonyan, the opposition-aligned mayor of...
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Stories of hope and regret from a women’s prison in Armenia
By Gevorg Tosunyan In a corner of Armenia’s Abovyan Penitentiary, a Peruvian woman practices her Armenian vocabulary. Maria, sentenced to 15 years for drug trafficking in 2015, has made this unlikely...
View ArticleArmenia to regain control over occupied territories through negotiations,...
Azerbaijani troops will withdraw from the internationally recognized Armenian territories once the border delimitation is finalized, Armen Abazyan, the director of Armenia’s National Security Service,...
View ArticleThirty years of media coverage in Nagorno-Karabakh
By Sophie Holloway The multimedia exhibition “Conflict Journalism Episodes” is currently on show at the Loft in Ijevan. Focusing on the Nagorno-Karabakh wars and organized by the Media Initiatives...
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“It Won’t Happen to Me”: How lax enforcement endanger Armenian children in cars
By Geghetsik Voskanyan Armenia’s hospitals reported 252 cases of child injuries from traffic accidents in 2023, according to data CivilNet received from the Ministry of Health. Of these incidents, 180...
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Ayurveda Day: Yerevan hosts celebration of traditional medicine
By Sophie Holloway Yerevan hosted its second Ayurveda Day on 29 October – a global celebration of traditional Indian medicine that has been running for the past nine years. The event was organized by...
View ArticleGeorgian president uses derogatory language concerning Armenians
Georgia’s ceremonial president, Salome Zourabichvili, made a derogatory statement concerning Armenians while accusing the country’s ruling party of electoral fraud during the recent parliamentary...
View ArticleInstrumentalized and Alienated: Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian Refugees in Armenia
By Karena Avedissian The discourse around Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh in Armenia following the region’s ethnic cleansing by Azerbaijan in September 2023 highlights the troubling tendency...
View ArticleEU parliament smacks the Aliyev regime
In this week’s episode of Insights, Eric Hacopian analyzes the European Parliament’s new resolution against Azerbaijan, including potential sanctions and the call to end the EU-Azerbaijan gas deal....
View ArticleAI education to be introduced to schools across Armenia
The STEP.ai program, developed by AGBU Armenian Virtual College in collaboration with Synopsys Armenia and the Union of Employers of Information and Communication Technology (UE ICT), is giving...
View ArticleParliament seeks to encourage return of veterans to military
Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced that pushing for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not a top priority for his ministry. Armenian lawmakers introduced a bill yesterday...
View ArticleInside Tbilisi’s strange election
In this in-depth conversation, sociologist Alexander Thatcher joins Patrick Elliott to unpack Georgia’s shocking election results and their implications for democracy in the South Caucasus. The...
View ArticleArmenia to host UN Biodiversity Conference in 2026
Armenia will host a United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2026, defeating Azerbaijan’s competing bid. Armenia’s government postponed the implementation of its universal healthcare insurance...
View ArticleTurning Points in U.S. – Russia Relations
Thomas Graham, Anatol Lieven and Svetlana Savranskaya join a panel on ‘Turning Points in US-Russia Relations’ at a symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury...
View Article“The Foundations of U.S. Russia Policy” by Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham, special assistant to the U.S. president on Russia from 2004 to 2007, gave a talk on ‘The Foundations of U.S. Russia Policy’ at a symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in...
View ArticleRare Urartian statue discovered near Lake Van
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated Maia Sandu, the pro-Western president of Moldova, on winning the presidential election. A large basalt stone Urartian statue of a human was found...
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