Long seen as a pillar of Armenian identity, the Apostolic Church now finds its relationship with the state strained. Political change, postwar trauma, and institutional mistrust have blurred boundaries between spiritual and secular authority, raising urgent questions about legitimacy, governance, the need for reform and the Church’s role in public life.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of February 16: Four Armenian border guards are killed following an Azerbaijani attack; a major shuffle of the top military brass takes place after this latest incident; Armenia’s Economy Minister is sacked and charged with abuse of power and more.
In September, two families-in-law from Artsakh found refuge in the village of Yeghvard, Armenia, joining over 100,000 displaced Armenians facing similar challenges. Marut Vanyan, a journalist from Artsakh, provides insight into their experiences.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of December 1: Armenian and Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions meet at the state border; following the September 19 Azerbaijani attack on Artsakh, 16 people are in Azerbaijani custody, including eight Artsakh state officials; trucks loaded with Armenian-made products are stranded for days at the Lars border before being turned back; Russia says the products did not pass quality inspection and more.
The decay of cinema as an intellectual and creative medium is difficult to deny and poster art, that once acted as a visual portal into the film’s world and less as a means of direct advertisement, has been replaced by nondescript and formulaic film advertising.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of April 28: Azerbaijan installs checkpoint at the entrance of the Lachin Corridor in flagrant violation of the tripartite statement that ended the 2020 war; Azerbaijani eco-activists, who had been blocking the Corridor for 138 days, have temporarily suspend their protest; France’s Foreign Affairs Minister is in Armenia, says Baku must comply with the ICJ decision on the Lachin Corridor and more.
Relations between Armenians and Kurds date back to the time of the Medes. The relationship has fluctuated, sometimes uniting, other times dividing the two peoples living on the same land and now facing the same threats.
Հղիության արհեստական ընդհատմանն անդրադարձող ու հայաստանյան պատկերը ներկայացնող հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը։
Garegin Papoyan’s film “Bon Voyage” manages to recreate a Kafkaesque world in the form of the Stepanakert Airport, where people follow a seemingly unreasonable system, and continue to do their work with incredible persistence, without questioning its meaning.
Ստեփանակերտի օդանավակայանի մասին ֆիլմին անդրադարձող հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը: Ընթերցում է հեղինակը։
EVN Report’s mission is to empower Armenia, inspire the diaspora and inform the world through sound, credible and fact-based reporting and commentary. Our goal is to increase public trust in the media. EVN Report is the media arm of EVN News Foundation registered in the Republic of Armenia in 2017.
