EVN Security Report
Examining the Context:
The Disinformation Virus
Disinformation campaigns are strategic tools designed to erode political culture rather than foster healthy debate. In this episode, Dr. Nerses Kopalyan explains how coordinated disinformation endangers Armenia’s resilience and security, and how society can build immunity against it.
Politics
U.S.-Brokered TRIPP in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Deal: Opportunities and Risks
The proposed “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP) has sparked sharp debate in Armenia. Sossi Tatikyan explores its origins, legal and operational framework, geopolitical implications, and the controversies it has stirred both domestically and internationally.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan and Constitutional Amendments: Lessons from the Prespa Agreement
Baku’s push for changes in Armenia’s Constitution has been likened to the Prespa Agreement, but the comparison falters: Prespa resolved symbolic disagreements, while Armenia confronts existential threats. Forced amendments risk undermining both legal norms and political stability.
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The Unfinished Peace Deal: Armenia–Azerbaijan Agreement Initialed Yet Unsigned
Armenia and Azerbaijan have initialed, but not signed, a peace agreement. While the deal advances hopes for normalization, the ambiguities and omissions leave a potential settlement fragile, contested and vulnerable to instability. Sossi Tatikyan explains.
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Opinion
Resetting the Clock: August 8 and Armenia’s Path to Lasting Peace
Armenia did not achieve a sustainable, guaranteed peace on August 8. Rather, Armenia secured the opportunity to earn that peace by doubling down on efforts to become the primary guarantor of its security and prosperity, writes Raffi Kassarjian.
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What Does Armenia Stand to Gain? Musings on the Washington Signing
The Washington documents mark a new stage in Armenia-Azerbaijan talks, lowering the risk of renewed war for at least three years, writes Davit Petrosyan. Armenia’s challenge is to use this window of opportunity to strengthen its security and spur economic development, as the real outcome hinges on what follows, not what’s signed.
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Advocating for Justice After the Peace Agreement
The Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process highlights the enduring tension between peace and justice. While legal rulings create certainty, they often fail victims. True reconciliation, experts argue, requires context-specific approaches where peace and justice coexist, even if one must yield to the other.
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Columns
Beyond the Ceremony: The Real Test for Armenia–Azerbaijan Peace
Washington’s signing ceremony holds the promise of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But the real work—steady, patient and far from the cameras—is only beginning, writes Olesya Vartanyan.
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To Love Armenia
What does it mean to love a land? In this moving piece, Maria Gunko takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a land where mountains breathe history and rivers carry memory. While tracing Armenia’s landscapes and contradictions, she ponders how affection endures when beauty, uneasy history, and complex geopolitics collide.
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Boxes and Labels
From gold stars in kindergarten to titles and accolades in adulthood, we’ve been taught to measure our worth by checklists and labels. Sheila Paylan invites us to break free from the empty chase for approval and instead build lives that are real, sometimes messy, and truly ours.
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Thea Farhadian’s “Tattoos and Other Markings”
Violinist and experimental composer Thea Farhadian’s “Tattoos and Other Markings” weaves Armenian, Arabic and contemporary soundscapes to confront the haunting history of tattooed Armenian women during the Armenian Genocide, blending memory, identity and trauma into an unflinching, immersive sonic journey.
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Podcasts
ENV TALKS
The Genocide Education Project
How do you teach one of history’s darkest chapters to new generations? Roxanne Makasdjian, co-founder and Executive Director of The Genocide Education Project (GenEd), joins EVN Report’s Maria Titizian to explore the initiative’s origins and its influence on how American educators approach the Armenian Genocide and human rights in the classroom. She also shares insights about GenEd’s Teacher Fellowship Program, an immersive experience that brings educators to Armenia to engage directly with the history and memory of genocide.
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Ahead of COP17: A To-Do List
2026 is going to be quite the eventful year for Armenia, with parliamentary elections in June and the country hosting global events like COP17—the UN’s biodiversity summit—in October. To understand what COP17 means for Armenia, the preparations required and the challenges involved in hosting global negotiations about the future of the planet, we spoke with Tatiana Der Avedissian, head of business development for Economist Impact’s World Ocean Initiative, and sits on The Economist Group’s sustainability steering committee.
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Up Close & Personal with Cengiz Aktar
Political scientist, economist, author and public intellectual Cengiz Aktar, who spearheaded the landmark 2008 “I Apologize” campaign challenging the Turkish state’s official denial of the Armenian Genocide, speaks with piercing honesty in this episode of Up Close & Personal with EVN Report’s Maria Titizian. He reflects on Turkey’s politics, its fractured memory, and the enduring weight of “collective amnesia”. For Aktar, confronting the truth of the Genocide is not only a moral imperative; it is the key to breaking the nation’s cycle of repression.
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Opening Night: Arsinée Khanjian’s Armenian Odyssey
In 2018, Canadian-Armenian screen and stage actress Arsinée Khanjian made headlines for her vociferous support of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution. It was to be her last major public appearance until only a few months ago—a long period marked by a life-threatening illness and vicious backlash following the 2020 Artsakh War. Reflecting on this traumatic experience, Khanjian made her return to the stage in the auto-fictional play, “Donation” directed by her creative and life partner Atom Egoyan. In an EVN Report exclusive, the actress breaks her silence on how her relationship to Armenian culture and her art have transformed over these past fateful years.
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Atom Egoyan on the Gift and Burden of Memory
On April 25, renowned Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan premiered his first dramatic play “Donation” on the main stage of Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater. Specially commissioned by the theater’s artistic director Shermin Langhoff for the month-long festival “100+10-Armenian Allegories”, this autofictional two-hander starring Arsineé Khanjian delves into complex themes of artistic legacy, the slippages of memory and the ambivalent relationship between artists and art institutions. In this exclusive interview, Egoyan talks with Vigen Galstyan on the difficult process of writing and directing this deeply personal, yet sharply political opus.
Read moreLIFESTYLE
The August issue of SALT will immerse you in the rituals, rhythms and contradictions that shape contemporary Armenian life. From the evolving traditions of wedding rituals to Yerevan’s underground music scene, this month is about encounters, where heritage meets reinvention, and where spectacle (hello, J.Lo) collides with satire.
