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Mar 18, 2025
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EVN Report

EVN Security Report

Armenia’s security policies, and the complex and multilayered processes that shape its defense architecture, remain one of the most vital, yet underreported and understudied areas of the country’s social, political and institutional importance. EVN Report’s monthly security briefing, by Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, provides data-driven, in-depth analysis of Armenia’s evolving security situation.

Towards an Early Warning System: Anticipating Threats and Preparing for Attacks

Nerses Kopalyan

Armenia faces a complex security landscape, from immediate physical threats posed by Azerbaijan to multi-layered hybrid attacks. In this month’s security report, Nerses Kopalyan examines how Armenia is developing an advanced early warning system to shift from a reactive to a proactive defense strategy, leveraging information processing, intelligence, technology and strategic forecasting.

Examining the Context: Towards an Early Warning System

For the first time, a deep dive into Armenia’s intelligence community and its pivotal role in developing early warning systems. A conversation with Nerses Kopalyan, author of the EVN Security Report series, on the challenges, capabilities, and future of Armenian intelligence.

Politics

Tigran Yegavian

Hovhannes Nazaretyan

Hranoush Dermoyan

Davit Khachatryan

See Part I: International Arbitration and Armenia: Arbitrating Animosity

Sossi Tatikyan

See Part I: Aliyev’s Fabricated Narratives: Unveiling the Agenda

Davit Khachatryan

Columns

Olesya Vartanyan

Georgia’s leadership continues to tighten its grip on the ongoing protests, fueling suspicions that the country is drifting toward an authoritarian model similar to Azerbaijan. Armenia remains one of the few regional allies still willing to engage with Tbilisi’s embattled government.

Sheila Paylan

“Unleashed” turns one, marking a year of storytelling, self-discovery, and deep engagement. Reflecting on the past year’s articles, Sheila Paylan revisits personal and cultural themes, embracing growth, vulnerability, and the power of expression while looking forward to another year of breaking boundaries and embracing authenticity.

 

Maria Gunko

Maria Gunko explores the city’s transformation after dark, where familiar spaces shift, new rhythms emerge, and urban night pulses with secrecy, revelry and uncertainty. From hidden bars to shadow economies, it captures the mystery, intimacy and contradictions of Yerevan’s nocturnal self.

Christopher Atamian

Nina Katchadourian’s art playfully reorders the world, creating alternate meanings from everyday objects. Her projects, from rearranged book titles to self-portraits in airplane lavatories, challenge our perception of categories, identity and representation, blending humor with deep intellectual curiosity.

Opinion

Garren Jansezian

A wildcat strike has erupted in Kajaran, where over 2,000 miners and technicians at the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine demand better wages and conditions. This strike, the largest in decades, underscores Armenia’s weak worker protections, corporate power and the potential for broader social change.

News Watch

Hovhannes Nazaretyan

Armenia’s economy continued to grow in 2024, though at a slower pace, while foreign trade surged. Inflation remained low, and employment reached record levels. However, birth rates declined significantly, and net migration remained negative, reflecting broader demographic shifts. Hovhannes Nazaretyan explains.

Creative Tech

Armine Papikyan

Renderforest’s new text-to-video AI editor simplifies video production, allowing users to create high-quality content with just a prompt. Armine Papikyan explores its features, applications, and how Armenia’s AI sector is helping to shape global innovation despite challenges in scaling and infrastructure.

LIFESTYLE

Wool & Leather

The February issue of SALT explores the intersections of heritage, craftsmanship and resilience. From a quiet revolution in Armenian fashion and the struggle of local brands competing against global giants to the evolution of traditions among Armenian women from the Middle East and the power of art and storytelling as acts of defiance, these stories examine identity, creativity and forces that are shaping Armenian culture across generations and borders.

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