Tag: EVN Report

March 19, 2026
Azerbaijan Continues to Arm Itself While Talking Peace

Azerbaijan Continues to Arm Itself While Talking Peace

Azerbaijan speaks the language of peace while steadily expanding and diversifying its military arsenal. As negotiations with Armenia inch forward, Hovhannes Nazaretyan examines Baku’s sustained rearmament, including its suppliers, capabilities and strategic intent, and what it reveals about the fragile balance between diplomacy and deterrence in the South Caucasus.

March 18, 2026
Armenia’s AI Story Is Coming Into Focus

Armenia’s AI Story Is Coming Into Focus

A series of recent announcements, from a major AI factory expansion to plans for a small modular nuclear reactor, suggest Armenia’s technology ambitions are moving beyond rhetoric. Together, they hint at an emerging strategy linking AI infrastructure, energy capacity and the country’s growing innovation ecosystem.

March 17, 2026
Preserve Cinema Heritage or Let it Go

Preserve Cinema Heritage or Let it Go

The acquisition of Artavazd Peleshyan’s film rights by the German Co-production Office promises long-awaited restoration and global distribution. But the deal also exposes a deeper issue: Armenia’s lack of cultural policy to protect its cinematic heritage and maintain control over its most significant films.

March 11, 2026
Reading Labels: In Lieu of an Exhibition Review

Reading Labels: In Lieu of an Exhibition Review

At a British Library exhibition on British-Armenian history, Naneh Hovhannisyan reads labels—and reads between them. In this piece of creative nonfiction, she offers a personal response to a major cultural event for British Armenians, reflecting on cultural visibility, diaspora memory and the ambiguities of collective loyalty and representation.

March 10, 2026
The Invisible Masterclass of Productivity

The Invisible Masterclass of Productivity

Challenging the notion that mothers on maternity leave or outside formal employment are “economically inactive”, Hasmik Soghomonyan examines Armenia’s invisible care economy, and argues that unpaid caregiving and early childhood development are vital investments sustaining families, society and long-term economic growth.

March 9, 2026
Year of the Whores

Year of the Whores

In this month’s Unleashed, Sheila Paylan challenges the double standards that celebrate women for a day but judge them the rest of the year, and makes the case for women to live boldly, freely, and unapologetically on their own terms.