Yerevan Ballet Fest returned to Tumanyan Park, transforming the heart of the city into an open-air stage. With performances by the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, and local companies, the week-long festival brought world-class ballet to thousands under the summer sky.
From Berlin’s well-funded, immersive art scene to Yerevan’s under-resourced yet vibrant efforts, this instalment of “Artinerary” not only presents a calendar of cultural events coming up, but imagines what could emerge if Armenia’s artistic potential were fully supported and politically prioritized.
Amid a digital age, film photography finds new life in Yerevan. This personal journey through snowy streets, underground labs, and passionate communities reveals how analog photography reemerged through creativity, limitation and human connection.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of June 20: Israel-Iran conflict starting to have ripple effects in Armenia; Russian-Armenian billionaire is in pretrial detention on charges of inciting the seizure of power; PM Nikol Pashinyan is in Turkey at Erdogan’s invitation and more.
As Armenia focuses on defense reforms aimed at deterrence, Azerbaijan intensifies its military build-up and superiority despite ongoing peace talks. Sossi Tatikyan analyzes diverging strategies, spending and alliances, highlighting how the military imbalance threatens regional stability and undermines prospects for lasting peace.
A high-stakes clash involving PM Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Church and oligarch Samvel Karapetyan has triggered political, religious and geopolitical tensions, with Pashinyan calling for the nationalization of Armenia’s power grid amid charges of foreign interference and subversion.
As Armenia reorients its foreign policy away from Russia, it is deepening ties not only with the West, but also with non-Western partners. Hovhannes Nazaretyan explores Armenia’s evolving engagement with Central Asian states as part of that strategy.
Two Armenian films were featured at this year’s Berlinale, marking a rare milestone. Sona Karapoghosyan explores their significance, the shifting politics of international film festivals, and how Armenian cinema navigates recognition, identity and the quiet constraints of global cultural power.
World Bank senior economist Julie Rosenberg discusses Armenia’s path to green growth, focusing on reducing natural gas dependency, expanding solar energy, addressing water management challenges, and implementing key policy and financing reforms outlined in the Country Climate and Development Report.
In light of the Iran–Israel conflict, Raffy Ardhaldjian argues that civil defense is a core function of sovereignty and a tool of statecraft—less about technical fixes, more about political will. Armenian political thought, he stresses, begins with readiness, not rhetoric.
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