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.
Armenia exists against the odds. It sits on the geological and civilizational faultlines that bind it to a state of perpetual unrest and becoming. In a world where globalizing homogeneity and extreme polarization generate total alienation and indifference, any place that still produces the necessary tensions for defiance is one to be treasured. And nowhere are those tensions more evident than the contradictorily divergent, mysteriously flourishing and unexpectedly multipolar arena of the local arts.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of April 17: The European Union to deploy second mission to Armenia; several members of Samvel Karapetyan’s Strong Armenia Party detained on alleged election-related offenses; Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says TRIPP is entering implementation phase and more.
Krisp, known for eliminating background noise, is moving into a new phase of voice AI. Its Accent Understanding feature aims to make speech easier to follow across accents, raising both practical benefits for global work and deeper questions about identity and communication.
A harrowing account of Armenian prisoners of war held in Azerbaijan, Gibran Caroline Boyce follows one family’s years-long fight for justice. As peace talks advance, it examines human rights abuses, legal battles and the unresolved fate of detainees left behind.
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