The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenge or Opportunity for Armenian Tech?

Beyond Borders

Armenia’s EU Ambition

Jan 20, 2025

Armenia’s government has introduced a law to pursue EU membership, signaling ambitions to align with

Europe’s governance standards. Though membership is distant, the initiative could drive internal transformation, drawing lessons from neighboring countries' experiences on similar paths.

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The High Stakes of Europe’s Monitoring Mission in the South Caucasus

Olesya Vartanyan

Dec 24, 2024

Following Azerbaijan's 2022 attack on Armenia, the EU quickly deployed a civilian mission to monitor

the situation along the tense border. While the mission has helped to maintain a fragile calm, Azerbaijan has made its removal one of the conditions for progress in peace talks with Armenia.

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Crisis in Georgia: What It Means for Armenia’s EU Ambitions

Olesya Vartanyan

Dec 9, 2024

As Georgia grapples with political turbulence and debates its path toward the European Union, its

future will inevitably influence Armenia. Meanwhile, Georgia’s recent history in navigating relations with the West offers valuable lessons that Armenia might consider for its own journey.

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Tech Matters

The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenge or Opportunity for Armenian Tech?

Raffi Kassarjian

Jan 24, 2025

As AI reshapes industries worldwide, Raffi Kassarjian explores its implications for Armenia’s tech sector. From

algorithmic bias to AI-assisted development, he examines how local firms can adapt, innovate and compete in a rapidly evolving global landscape.

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Armenian Tech 2024 Wrap-up: Positioning for the Next Wave of Growth

Raffi Kassarjian

Dec 20, 2024

Armenia’s tech sector closed 2024 with notable achievements, from ServiceTitan’s $10 billion IPO to SuperAnnotate’s

$36 million Series B funding. Government initiatives like the Starlink rollout and tech-sector incentives, coupled with diaspora collaboration, signal a transformative year positioning Armenian tech for global growth in 2025 and beyond.

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Following the Irish Model

Raffi Kassarjian

Nov 21, 2024

Looking to Ireland’s success, Raffi Kassarjian explores how Armenia can harness its diaspora, invest in

education and innovation, and align efforts across sectors to craft a unified strategy for a transformative and impactful national agenda.

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Unleashed

Fires and Fascists

Sheila Paylan

Jan 13, 2025

As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, exposing unpreparedness and policy failures, parallels emerge with Armenia's challenges

amid escalating threats by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Sheila Paylan highlights the need for vigilance and readiness against both natural disasters and geopolitical crises.

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New Year’s Revolutions

Sheila Paylan

Dec 30, 2024

Reimagining resolutions as personal uprisings, Sheila Paylan reflects on a life-changing typo, and explores how

small, intentional steps can ignite change, turning aspirations into lasting revolutions for growth, fulfillment and reinvention.

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Borderline

Sheila Paylan

Dec 16, 2024

In Kirants, a small village on Armenia’s northeastern border, ancient monasteries, a school with a

bomb shelter, and a military base coexist. Sheila Paylan explores the physical and emotional boundaries that define security, identity and resilience in a fragile landscape.

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Outside In

Tracing Armenian Heritage in Venice

Maria Gunko

Jan 7, 2025

Delving into the rich cultural legacy of Venice’s San Lazzaro degli Armeni island, Maria Gunko

reflects on the enduring significance of Armenian heritage around the world, the beauty of discovery, and the philosophical charm of places seemingly untouched by time.

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They Versus We

Maria Gunko

Nov 28, 2024

In this month’s column, Maria Gunko explores how the pronouns "they" and "we" are

used to navigate narratives of destruction, complicity and survival. She examines the shifting boundaries of agency and the struggle for meaning in a post-socialist, post-truth landscape.

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Haunts and Howls

Maria Gunko

Oct 30, 2024

In the forests of the Armenian Highlands, lies a small town stripped of Soviet modernity

with no more than metal corpses left of industrial buildings. For the past 30 years, the town has been reclaimed by a tide of greenery and with it, wildlife has returned. Now the howls of jackals echo through the streets.

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Art Speak

Sleight of Hand: Choghakate Kazarian and the Magical Art of Curating

Christopher Atamian

Jan 8, 2025

Choghakate Kazarian, an Armenian-born, Paris-raised curator, masterfully blends intellectual rigor and artistic elegance. Specializing in

modern and contemporary art, her groundbreaking exhibitions, from Chloé’s fashion history to Armenian abstraction, showcase her dedication to preserving and redefining art’s narrative.

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Meri Karapetyan: Ready for Her Closeup at the Biennale de Lyon

Christopher Atamian

Nov 12, 2024

An emerging artist raised in Yerevan, Meri Karapetyan challenges ideas of borders and conflict in

her work, reimagining them as transitional spaces. Her large-scale barbed wire installation at the Biennale de Lyon transforms barriers into pathways, inviting new perspectives on division and identity.

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Columns

Beyond Borders

Armenia’s EU Ambition

The High Stakes of Europe’s Monitoring Mission in the South Caucasus

Crisis in Georgia: What It Means for Armenia’s EU Ambitions

Tech Matters

The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence: Challenge or Opportunity for Armenian Tech?

Armenian Tech 2024 Wrap-up: Positioning for the Next Wave of Growth

Following the Irish Model

Unleashed

Fires and Fascists

New Year’s Revolutions

Borderline

Outside In

Tracing Armenian Heritage in Venice

They Versus We

Haunts and Howls

Art Speak

Sleight of Hand: Choghakate Kazarian and the Magical Art of Curating

Meri Karapetyan: Ready for Her Closeup at the Biennale de Lyon

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