Yerevan’s Hrazdan River embodies the city’s contradictions: beauty and neglect, belonging and exclusion, ecological loss and fragile possibilities for coexistence, public life and environmental consciousness. In this personal observation, Taline Oundjian looks at what the river reveals about the city itself.

A long-awaited South Caucasian co-production promises hope through collaboration, but “Caucasian Blues” struggles with stereotypes, weak writing and shallow politics, revealing how much harder genuine, transformative regional storytelling still is. Taline Oundjian’s review.

Taline Oundjian traces the intellectual and political journey of Pınar Selek, a Turkish feminist and anti-militarist persecuted by the state, whose work on structural violence, memory, and the Armenian genocide offers powerful insights into resistance, identity and forgotten histories.

Civilian reporting filled the information void left by the absence of international journalists during the blockade and ethnic cleansing in 2023 of the Armenians of Artsakh. Taline Oundjian looks at the benefits and ethical dilemmas, and the importance of local journalists in global reporting.

Over the past three weeks, thousands of people in Tbilisi have protested every night, fearing that the “foreign agent” law would push Georgia towards authoritarianism and Russia’s influence. Taline Oundjian covers the recent events.

In the second installment of a series, Taline Oundjian examines the process of media information dissemination, offering insights into practical and theoretical aspects. This understanding sheds light on the challenges media encounters and its implications for coverage, especially in countries like Armenia.

Armenian journalists reporting on breaking news in Armenia and Artsakh for global media outlets frequently face scrutiny regarding their objectivity because of their ethnicity, suggesting an underlying bias that undermines their professionalism and reflects a covertly racist perspective.