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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.

In this sweeping look at Viktor Orbán’s rise and fall, Mikayel Zolyan explores how Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” unraveled, driven by economic decline, political fatigue and how an unlikely challenger, Peter Magyar, capitalized on the moment, with broader implications for Europe, Armenia and beyond.

The outbreak of a U.S.-Israeli war against Iran carries consequences far beyond the Middle East. Given Iran’s pivotal role in regional balances, any weakening reverberates from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf. The South Caucasus, especially Armenia, already fragile after 2020, faces immediate and longer-term fallout.

Քաղաքականության նկատմամբ երիտասարդների մարող հետաքրքրվածության պատճառներին ու հետևանքներին անդրադարձող հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը։

In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of April 10: Armenia’s parliament speaker says Yerevan could withdraw from two major Russian-led blocs if Moscow raises gas prices or imposes economic pressure; Civil Contract parliamentarian warns of falling conscription numbers; Estonia opens embassy in Yerevan and more.

The dismissal of Armenia’s Genocide Museum-Institute director sparked widespread outrage, but fragmented media responses failed to translate public anger into meaningful reform, underscoring the need to channel attention into informed debate, coordinated advocacy, and concrete policy-driven change.