Opinion
Politics
Armenia, China, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Navigating Between Poles
Armenia’s pursuit of a strategic partnership with China and its bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) reflect a broader effort to recalibrate foreign policy amid shifting global alignments, balancing ambition with constraint in an increasingly multipolar world.
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Armenia vs. Azerbaijan: Competing Narratives at the UN
Five years after the 2020 war, Aliyev and Pashinyan addressed the UNGA with sharply contrasting narratives. Aliyev employed cognitive warfare to assert dominance and legitimize past aggression, while Pashinyan exercised narrative constraint, emphasizing sovereignty, reciprocity and constructive peacebuilding. Sossi Tatikyan explains.
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Unconventional Grief: Armenia’s Landscapes Lost to Mining
In Teghut, Armenia, as mining transforms forests into pits and rivers into waste, villagers like Yegishe mourn landscapes lost to industry, naming their sorrow solastalgia—the homesickness felt while still at home.
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Solar Takes Off: Can It Fuel Armenia’s Energy Independence?
Armenia is rapidly embracing solar power, with rooftop and utility-scale projects driving energy independence and sustainability. Hovhannes Nazaretyan examines the country’s growing capacity, landmark farms like Masrik-1, future wind ambitions, and the challenges of integrating renewables into the national grid.
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The Climate Is Changing, How Are Armenian Winemakers Adapting?
Armenia’s winemaking renaissance faces a new challenge: climate change. From shifting harvests to genetic research on native grapes, winemakers and scientists are adapting—experimenting with higher-altitude vineyards, irrigation methods, and biodiversity to preserve a six-millennia-old tradition.
Read moreLaw & Society
License to Chaos: The Reality of Driving in Yerevan
Raw & Unfiltered
Armenia, Still Off the Beaten Track?
Armenia’s tourism industry has seen remarkable growth in recent years, yet structural weaknesses including limited funding, poor visibility, and lack of strategy continue to hold it back. Unlocking its full potential requires sustainable planning, decentralization and serious government commitment.
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Finding the Ones Who Stayed
In Istanbul, the remnants of an ancient Armenian presence continue to endure. Through encounters with community members and reflections on belonging, Maral Tavitian explores how those who remained in Turkey preserve identity, culture and memory amid loss and resilience.
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Democracy Under Pressure: Moldova, Georgia, and the Road Ahead for Armenia
Moldova and Georgia’s recent elections reveal how fear, manipulation and political crisis can shape a nation’s future. As Armenia approaches its own vote, lessons from Chișinău and Tbilisi offer crucial insights on preserving stability, countering disinformation and sustaining democratic resilience.
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Forgive Me Not
Forgiveness is often misunderstood whether as surrender, self-help, or moral performance. Drawing from personal experience and collective trauma, Sheila Paylan explores the tension between justice and mercy, insisting that peace built on truth, not amnesia, is the only kind that endures.
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Geography of Delusion in the South Caucasus
Between Kars and Gyumri, reality bends on the map. Maria Gunko traces how geography, technology, and politics conspire to blur borders in the South Caucasus, where every route reveals both connection and confinement, every map is a tool of both navigation and imagination.
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Breaking New Ground with “Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection”
A sweeping curatorial study of post-Soviet Armenian art, “Topographies of Dissent” at the Zimmerli Art Museum traces how artists navigated censorship, identity and modernity—transforming dissent into a language of aesthetic and cultural renewal.
Read moreCreative Tech
DigiTec 2025: Where Armenia’s Tech Future Never Sleeps
Marking its 20th anniversary, DigiTec 2025 promises three days of nonstop innovation, creativity and connection. With a global lineup of speakers, AI-driven discussions, investment opportunities, and cultural celebrations, Armenia’s largest tech event is evolving into a citywide festival of technology and imagination.
Podcast
LIFESTYLE
The October issue of SALT takes you through spaces where memory and imagination intertwine—from the house-museum of Lusik Aguletsi, who transformed remembrance into a radical act of cultural resilience, to an abandoned clock factory reborn through the vision of contemporary artists, onto the runways of Yerevan Fashion Week, and finally to a story of how one person’s initiative is transforming the face of the country.
The Runway
