Despite the impossible security and geopolitical environment, the continuing sense of fragility and uncertainty, Armenia has made significant strides since the Velvet Revolution. However, if it is to succeed, it must transcend the politics of negation and fulfill the promise of an open future.
In 2024, Armenia made significant strides to diversify its security alliances, carefully distancing itself from Russia by freezing CSTO participation, joining the ICC, and reducing Russian border presence, while deepening ties with other partners. Hovhannes Nazaretyan wraps up the year.
In 2024, Armenia and Azerbaijan transitioned peace talks to a bilateral framework but failed to finalize a treaty. Despite progress on border delimitation, tensions persisted, with Azerbaijan’s threats and disputes over arms procurement, regional communications, and POWs. Meanwhile, normalization with Turkey stalled. Hranoush Dermoyan explains.
For 20 years, Synopsys Armenia has fostered innovation and education, advancing local talent and Armenia’s tech sector through R&D, strategic partnerships, and educational programs, becoming a global leader in semiconductor design and workforce development.
Escalating his anti-Armenian rhetoric at COP 29, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also broadened his attacks on Western institutions. Coupling state propaganda with inflammatory speeches, he framed the West as complicit in regional instability and intensifying tensions to deflect attention from his authoritarian regime.
In Kirants, a small village on Armenia’s northeastern border, ancient monasteries, a school with a bomb shelter, and a military base coexist. Sheila Paylan explores the physical and emotional boundaries that define security, identity and resilience in a fragile landscape.
As the world grapples with relentless upheaval and a growing sense of despair, the relevance of art has never been more urgent for even amidst destruction, art can illuminate pathways to renewal. By stepping outside the confines of our panic-ridden newsfeeds, we open ourselves to the transformative potential of creative expression. Art can help us confront the chaos while offering a vital escape—a momentary reprieve to reimagine what the future could hold.
Davit Khachatryan’s analysis of Azerbaijan's 2021 ICJ proceedings against Armenia under CERD, explores Baku’s strategic attempt to counter Armenia's evidence-based claims, create a false equivalency, and influence the judiciary through calculated legal maneuvering.
Lory Bedikian’s book of poetry “Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body” is a poignant exploration of immigrant trauma, familial bonds, identity and mortality. It announces and denounces our fears and some of our most innermost pain with prescient beauty and rare honesty, writes Christopher Atamian in this review.
Syria's political landscape is transforming at breathtaking speed and while historical opposition groups and countless refugees welcome this development, Armenians and other minorities face an uncertain future. From Yerevan's perspective, the urgent question now is how to organize the evacuation of our compatriots, leveraging support from the UN and diplomatic representations operating in Syria.
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