
Siranush Sargsyan
Contributor at Freelance
Freelance journalist from Nagorno-Karabakh/ Artsakh: Stories in @BBC @NewLines @Newsweek @OpenDemocracy; @TheArmenianweekly @IWPR
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3 weeks ago |
armenianweekly.com | Siranush Sargsyan
Last year, while studying in the United States, I found myself drawn beyond the classroom to the heart of the Armenian diaspora community. Amid the usual bustle of academic life, I attended numerous meetings with committed local activists. These gatherings revealed a complex tapestry of opinions and emotions.
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1 month ago |
armenianweekly.com | Siranush Sargsyan
The Cafesjian Center for the Arts, perched atop Yerevan’s iconic Cascade, has recently become the site of a significant artistic homecoming. On May 5, 2025, the Center unveiled RETURN, a major solo exhibition by Armenian-American sculptor Zadik Zadikian, marking the artist’s first major show in his homeland in nearly six decades. The exhibition is anchored by “The Strangers,” a monumental installation that commands both attention and reflection.
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1 month ago |
armenianweekly.com | Siranush Sargsyan
A mother’s gaze, etched with the scars of four wars, meets the lens of a son she never bore. In a quiet nursing home in Yerevan, nearly five years after their first encounter in a bomb-shaken church basement, Nora Sahakyan and Swiss-Armenian photojournalist and documentarian Demir Sönmez are reunited. Their story began on October 30, 2020, in the cold, uncertain hours of the second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
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1 month ago |
armenianweekly.com | Siranush Sargsyan
YEREVAN—After a large rally dedicated to the rights of the Artsakh people, the tent that had stood for nearly a month in Yerevan’s Freedom Square was dismantled, following a decision by the Council for the Protection of the Rights of Artsakh Armenians. The Council announced that it would relocate its activities to the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Artsakh in Yerevan. This move followed what the Council described as “certain positive developments” after the March 29 rally.
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2 months ago |
armenianweekly.com | Siranush Sargsyan
“End this Artsakh-phobic propaganda, or it may lead to fratricide.” This warning came from Tatevik Khachatryan, a member of the Council for the Protection of Rights of Artsakh Armenians, who stood firm among protesters outside the office of Armenia’s Prosecutor General on April 14. Khachatryan held a thick dossier: a compilation of hate speech targeting Armenians who fled Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan’s 2023 military attack and consequent ethnic cleansing.
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