A royal visit spotlighted Armenia’s forests, but also exposed how bureaucracy, competing land interests, and weak governance continue to undermine reforestation. As Armenia prepares for COP17, ambitious pledges collide with stalled permits, mining pressures and a system struggling to turn promises into forests. Hranoush Dermoyan reports.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, there are allegations—some founded, some unfounded—that troops and resources have quietly been redeployed from Armenia’s Gyumri base and the former peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh. Justin Tomczyk examines online activity that reveals this movement of forces and what a planned surge of troops to Gyumri means for the region.
The security component of the Strategic Agenda incorporates Europe as an important part of Armenia’s developing security architecture, writes Nerses Kopalyan, where the confluence of hard power capacity and small-state resilience become integrated, at the institutional level, with European and Transatlantic standards.
This in-depth Q&A with Dr. Bedross Der Matossian examines the past and present of Jerusalem’s Armenian community, one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited Armenian centers, exploring its history, struggles under shifting regimes, rising pressures from settlers, and the existential threat posed by the Cow’s Garden land dispute.
Blending repetition, geometric precision and tactile threadwork, Tsolak Topchyan turns instability into rhythm and renewal. His latest exhibition in Yerevan traced how abstraction, labor and quiet variation can become tools for steadiness, and subtle resistance, in a world marked by upheaval.
Explore Armenia’s most unconventional dishes through the eyes of Maria Gunko who views every meal as cultural inquiry. Blending humor, discomfort and discovery, she examines how food rituals reveal identity and the intimate logic of a place.
Armenia and the European Union unveiled a new Strategic Agenda in Brussels that builds on CEPA, elevating their partnership to a strategic level. The plan deepens cooperation on governance, security, connectivity and economic reform, providing a forward-looking framework for EU-Armenia relations.
Filmmaker Eric Nazarian challenges the cultural gatekeeping that dictates who is “allowed” to tell certain stories. Drawing on a life shaped by multiethnic Los Angeles, he makes a powerful case for cross-cultural storytelling as resistance, empathy and a reminder that art transcends borders.
Reflecting on democracy, dissent and the dangers of entrenched power, Sheila Paylan tells the story of jailed Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza with growing concerns in Armenia, urging vigilance against the erosion of hard-won democratic space.
Residents of Shirak’s border villages view the possible reopening of the Armenia–Turkey border and the Kars–Gyumri railway with a mix of hope, skepticism and deep historical unease. Catherine Odom’s report from Shirak.
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