You’ve been tricked. I do want you to read this article—very much, in fact. And I had a whole wonderful introduction prepared, that described in no simple terms a busy morning at the Armenian Weekly—in […]
On March 26, a video testimony was published as part of a report by local news site Epress.am. The video features Asya Khachatryan, a 19-year-old girl from Yerevan, describing the three-day, police-led harassment she experienced […]
For many villagers across Armenia, karases—the egg-shaped terracotta jugs used for winemaking in the region—aren’t worth the basement space they occupy. Despite the fact that in recent years, they have become a symbol of […]
Anyone that’s ever tried to learn Armenian eventually comes into contact with the bizarre duality of the language—namely, that there are two. And these two dialects are divided, as the rest of the world appears […]
Inside a modestly-sized café on Amiryan Street in downtown Yerevan, Westerners tinker away on tiny laptops. Workers from a local non-profit hash out the morning gossip. Young people from the city’s bearded creative class dash […]
“Spotlight on Our Media” is a special series for the Armenian Weekly highlighting the work of local journalists covering in-country issues. In the summer of 2016, journalist Tatev Khachatryan made a simple, yet startling observation: […]
It’s 2018, and among the many items on its agenda, the Armenian government is preparing to finalize a new initiative that will be a landmark for the country’s landfills: the construction of the first sanitary […]
For every majestic photograph of Mount Ararat from Yerevan posted to Instagram, there is a far less-appealing view lurking just outside the edges of its neatly cropped frame. Plastic bags, bottles, dirty diapers, used yogurt […]
Many of us would like to believe that the power to change the world lies in the hands of consumers—but does it actually? That’s a question I posed recently to Greg Asbed, a recent recipient […]
My decision to make contact with the other side—the Azeri side—came shortly after clashes erupted on the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) Line of Contact (LoC) in April 2016. I was living and working in Armenia at the […]
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