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3 days ago | 
evnreport.com | Astghik Karapetyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
“Don’t mention the name of the medical service, I’m terribly dissatisfied. Because of them, I’ve been labeled a liar,” said 35-year-old Arthur (name changed), who is now in his third year of detention. Arthur is serving a ten-year sentence for one criminal conviction and is also a defendant in another case currently on trial. He is periodically transported to court for hearings. During a recent session, he began to feel unwell:“The nurse came in and said, ‘What’s wrong with you?
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5 days ago | 
evnreport.com | Sheila Paylan |Hranoush Dermoyan
Last week, I sat in front of a room full of dignitaries, ambassadors, senior experts, and high-level officials from all over the world to moderate a panel. It was the second edition of the Yerevan Dialogue, and the subject of my talk—global justice and the rule of international law—is one I’ve specialized in for nearly two decades. I had done the research, formulated the questions, anticipated the answers, and rehearsed every line. I knew the material inside out.
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1 week ago | 
evnreport.com | Hovhannes Nazaretyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
The Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC) recently released its 2024 Caucasus Barometer survey, conducted between July 27 and October 10 last year among 1,561 Armenian adults. It is a household survey about social-economic issues and political attitudes that has been conducted in Armenia regularly since 2008. The previous one was carried out in late 2021 and early 2022.
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1 week ago | 
evnreport.com | Tatevik Hayrapetyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on March 13 that the draft “Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan” had been finalized and negotiations had concluded. The ministry said that the peace agreement was ready for signing after Armenia accepted Azerbaijan’s proposals on the two remaining articles.
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3 weeks ago | 
evnreport.com | Alexander Thatcher |Hranoush Dermoyan
The winter wind is inescapable in seaside Kadıköy. Those parts of Istanbul close to the Bosporus endure four months of the year under relentless gusts from the Black Sea and the Caucasus, and this mid-November evening in 2021 was no exception I was hurriedly running errands before returning to Vienna, buying gifts for my friends—Turkish students in my graduate program.
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3 weeks ago | 
evnreport.com | Sossi Tatikyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
Your browser does not support theaudio element. Armenia has recently demonstrated a strategic interest in deepening its relationship with the European Union, viewing it as a crucial partner for democratic consolidation, security diversification, and economic development.
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1 month ago | 
evnreport.com | Gaïdz Minassian |Hranoush Dermoyan
Thus, the prime minister launched the debate between “real Armenia” and “historical Armenia”. The image is pertinent, the comparison a bit less so, because the word “historical” poses a problem—history being a social reality, a human science that falls within the realm of the real. What if instead of “historical Armenia”, Nikol Pashinyan had used the expression “celestial Armenia”? Wouldn’t that be even more apt? But what exactly are we talking about here?
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1 month ago | 
evnreport.com | Vigen Galstyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
As I watch almost everybody around me fall in thrall of the seemingly “infinite” possibilities of AI and how “easy” it makes to do, well, practically anything, I wait (with diminishing hope) that this latest technological wonder is going to magically trigger a new era in human creativity—an ontological turn-around akin to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, or the Industrial Revolution. It has happened before, of course.
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1 month ago | 
evnreport.com | Hranoush Dermoyan
Beans, Feathers and an Onion Named AklatizBefore smartphones and Google calendars, keeping track of the days of Great Lent wasn’t always straightforward. One old story captures just how easy it was to lose count. According to the tale, on the first day of Great Lent, a village priest placed 49 beans in his pocket—one for each day of the fast—discarding one daily to mark the passage of time. A practical, if rustic, solution. But one day, while doing laundry, his wife noticed the pocket full of beans.
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1 month ago | 
evnreport.com | Nerses Kopalyan |Hranoush Dermoyan
In the aftermath of the 2020 Karabakh War, successive shocks to Armenia’s security environment have fostered a more complex and multifaceted societal understanding of the various levels of threats confronting the country. While physical security dominated thinking from 2020 to 2023, congruent hybrid attacks, information warfare, and kinetic diplomacy have exposed Armenian society to a conceptualization of security that goes over and beyond physical security.
