This month for Unleashed, Sheila Paylan draws a line from childhood bullying to Armenia’s unexpected rise into the global spotlight, reflecting on how people and countries can use pain and rejection to rise above and beyond what tried to break them.
From family kitchens to Yerevan’s cafe culture, coffee has shaped Armenian daily life for generations. Blending personal memory with social history, Tamara Khachatryan traces how “soorj” became ritual, identity and one of the country’s most enduring shared pleasures.
A boba tea shop brings contemporary China to Yerevan through careful branding, cultural translation and taste. Its owner, a Chinese emigre, came looking for a good vibe and kind people; in return, she created a space that sits between cafe and experiment, showcasing how unfamiliar flavors, ideas and places can be introduced thoughtfully and unexpectedly.
For more than fifty years, Ruzan Saryan has guarded Armenia’s sound memory inside the archives of Public Radio. Through wars, political change and fading technologies, this intimate portrait follows the woman who preserved the voices of a nation.
Armenia’s election campaign hasn’t officially started, but in practice, it already has. In this episode, Maria Titizian examines the legal gray zone before the formal campaign period, where political forces are already spending, organizing and shaping public perception, without clear limits or full transparency.
A sharp, darkly funny walk through Yerevan from curb level, where crossing the street can feel like a survival sport. Through near-misses, chaos and observation, Lori Youmshajekian explores road culture, impatience and the daily vulnerability of pedestrians.
Every April 24, we focus so much on the inherited trauma and pain related to it, that we overlook the love woven through our stories. Can grief alone sustain us or do we need new rituals of gratitude, connection and renewal? What about the ethical responsibility of recognizing the suffering of others? Blending reflection with conversations with psychologists, artists and thinkers, Ella Kanagerian-Berberian searches for her own answers.
As modern conflict increasingly targets how societies think rather than what they control, Armenia faces growing exposure to cognitive warfare. Sossi Tatikyan explains the concept, maps its risks in Armenia’s post-war context, and outlines a resilience framework to strengthen cognitive security, public trust and democratic stability ahead of the 2026 elections and beyond.
A landmark of Soviet-era scholarship, the Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia remains the most comprehensive reference work in Armenian. Shaped by ideology yet vast in scope, it reflects both the intellectual ambition and the political constraints of its time.
A decades-long effort to expand Yerevan’s metro reveals a familiar cycle of ambitious promises, shifting timelines, and stalled execution. The long-delayed Ajapnyak station underscores deeper structural challenges in governance, planning and accountability behind Armenia’s unfinished infrastructure.
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