By Mark Dovich Hungary plans to open a consulate in Armenia in a sign of mending ties between the two…
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By Alexander Pracht Yerevan will build Armenia’s first waste recycling plant to close the Nubarashen landfill, one of the city’s most polluted and hazardous sites, senior adviser to Mayor Tigran Avinyan announced on Tuesday. The project is planned as a public-private partnership, with two stages of the tender process already completed to select the contractor. No completion date has been set so far. “The municipality has already initiated the tender package, and two stages have been completed to determine the winning organization that will build the recycling plant,” Kamo Areyan told reporters. The announcement comes after a large fire burned […]
By Alexander Pracht Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office and the Court of Appeals have issued opposing assessments on the legality of Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan’s arrest. The Appeals Court ruled his June detention unlawful, while prosecutors insisted the measure was legal and announced they would challenge the decision. Karapetyan’s defense team announced on Facebook Monday that the appeals court had deemed his arrest illegal, noting he has been in custody for 53 days and that prosecutors are expected to seek an extension. The Prosecutor General’s Office announced that the court’s finding “has no connection” to the legality of his ongoing detention, […]
Dominic Lieven, renowned Professor of Russian and international history, delivers a comprehensive lecture on “Russian History” on July 2, 2025, in Batumi at the symposium organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The 2025 Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia took place in Batumi, Yerevan, and Tbilisi from June 25 to July 13. Key points from the lecture: Lieven presents Russian imperial success as a remarkable achievement given the empire’s extraordinary geographical challenges. He argues that Russia faced unique disadvantages—being the northernmost great empire, far from world trade centers, with a […]
By Alexander Pracht Following the historic summit in Washington on Friday, where Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan agreed on a peace declaration, the two sides closed two out of three problematic issues toward normalization. The first was agreeing on the so-called ‘Trump Route’ through southern Armenia, a road Azerbaijan has sought for decades to connect with its Nakhichevan exclave, also coined in Azerbaijani and Turkish media as the ‘Zangezur corridor.’ The second was the dissolution of the Minsk Group, a mediation platform created in 1992 to address the Karabakh conflict. The two leaders announced in […]
By Charlotte Snoonian When Armenians had only a few weeks to leave the land under Azerbaijani control after the Karabakh War in 2020, TUMO Studios took action fast to preserve the cultural heritage that would be left behind. The use of new technology prompted an exhibition years later at one of the world’s most prestigious architecture exhibitions. This art of cultural preservation is on display at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Using technology in new ways to preserve heritage, the Armenia Pavilion is showcasing a project titled “Microarchitecture Through AI: Making New Memories with Ancient […]
