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Nearly half a century later, Ararat-73 still looms large in Armenia’s collective memory. More than a football triumph, the team embodied national pride under “apricot socialism,” blending Soviet structure with Armenian identity and leaving behind a legacy that continues to shape nostalgia, culture and belonging.

An in-depth look at Armenia’s shift from institutional child care to family-based welfare explores the roles of poverty, disability, stigma and law. Tigran Melikian examines recent positive reforms, remaining gaps and what it will take to ensure every child grows up in a family.

Reflecting on the 2025 film year, Sona Karapoghosyan traces how global cinema engages with gender, grief, revenge, and political catastrophe, from Gaza to migration, while questioning trends, festival politics and what films reveal about the world we live in.

Tracing how power reshapes cities, Heghine Pilosyan’s essay moves from Paris to Yerevan to show how architecture, land and urban form have served as instruments of authority, across monarchy, socialism and post-Soviet capitalism, revealing striking continuities beneath shifting ideologies.

Նախկին դատապարտյալների վերաներառման հազվադեպ, բայց հաջողված փորձին անդրադարձող հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը։

Focusing on legitimacy, refugees, national memory and whether trauma becomes paralysis or a catalyst for reinvention, Tigran Yegavian presents a comparative analysis of how catastrophic defeat reshapes states, examining Greece after the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe and Armenia after the loss of Artsakh.

A new national day of remembrance raises difficult questions about memory, truth and accountability, especially after the 2020 Artsakh War. Honoring the dead requires more than ritual, or a date on a calendar, it demands names, transparency and a truthful reckoning with how and why the war was lost.

Armenian finally sounds natural in AI. Elen Tovmasyan explores how Podcastle’s new Armenian text-to-speech technology could transform media, education, accessibility and diaspora engagement, while raising important questions about ethics, voice ownership and what it means for a “small” language to enter global AI systems.

Armenia’s foreign and security policy realignment is reshaping regional dynamics. Nerses Kopalyan introduces the doctrine of multi-alignment to Armenia’s policy discourse, arguing that diversification is rooted in this doctrine, one that favors strategic partnerships over alliances to de-risk security and enhance statecraft.