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During any given football match, over 14,000 fans flock to the Vazgen Sargsyan Stadium in Yerevan to watch the game. At the same time, 200 others make their way to the same match but with a different aim –– to turn their backs to the field.

Ilya Putilya came to Yerevan from Luhansk after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Putilya’s war, however, started in 2014. He says he is often taken for a Russian in Armenia; when he says he’s Ukrainian, many, it seems, want to change the subject.

In the 19th century, Armenian women began dismantling stereotypes about them that were being published in the Armenian press of Tbilisi. Sofya Bayanduryants, founder of the first Armenian kindergartens, was among them.

Three years after the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut and 12 years after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, Armenian communities in the Middle East seem to be continuing their descent into the abyss. Tigran Yegavian explains.

Photojournalist Vaghinak Ghazaryan and Russian writer and journalist Yan Shenkman explore notions of immigration, exile, perhaps even sojourner through images and words to describe the challenges of leaving one life to start another one in a new country.

A video surfaced last month showing a police officer beating a minor, leading to public furor and demands for justice. But what if the video had not been released? Is this the police reform the public has been promised? Gohar Abrahamyan explains.

A descendent of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide travels to the historic Armenian city of Van situated on the shore of the eponymous lake in modern-day Turkey and discovers that the echoes of its Armenian past still remain visible.

Anti-vaccination attitudes have taken hold in Armenia, especially after the 2018 Velvet Revolution, however, according to experts, the threshold of vaccinated people is above 90%, in the country, which is an internationally accepted standard.

In the first of a series of articles about privatized and abandoned historic buildings in Armenia’s capital, Hovhannes Nazaretyan looks at the privatization process and current condition of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Yerevan’s Republic Square.

Although the infant mortality rate in Armenia, which is considered one of the main indicators of a country's socio-economic situation and quality of life, has decreased over the last ten years, it still accounts for 1% of all deaths.