Sofia Manukyan

Sofia Manukyan is a staff writer at the Armenian Weekly. Her specialization is in the field of human rights impacted by the private sector. She is particularly interested in how private interests impact the environment and socio-economics. She holds a degree in human rights from the University of Essex. In Armenia she is mostly engaged with promoting environmental protection and labor rights.
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Food Security on the Decline in Armenia?

Armenia has always been blessed with bountiful lands, ripe for the agricultural undertaking, and the country’s culinary heritage is, as…

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Reports

Roads to Amulsar Blocked as Locals Protest Gold Mine

It has been over 15 days that the roads leading to Amulsar are closed by residents of the Jermuk community…

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Special Reports

Local Voices Express Hopeful Expectations and Cautious Skepticisms

It has been over three weeks since we are living in a different Armenia. Now, in just a few days,…

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Special Reports

Students Discuss Reforms for Armenia’s Broken Educational Institutions

The last three decades since the fall of the Soviet Union have witnessed corruption infiltrate nearly every corner of Armenia’s…

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Roundups

Reactions to Pashinyan’s Premiership

On the occasion of Nikol Pashinyan’s appointment to the role of prime minister earlier today, congratulatory remarks have already started…

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News

Manukyan: Capturing More Voices from Citizens of the Yerevan Protests

Today marks nine days of mass protests that started after Nikol Pashinyan, finishing his walk from Gyumri, reached Yerevan and…

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Breaking

Political Protests Continue in Armenia

Summary In the past few weeks, local activists have been gearing up in Armenia, expressing dissatisfaction with the past and…

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News

Diversifying the Definition of ‘Diaspora’

YEREVAN (A.W.)—Some of the world’s leading experts in the field of Diaspora Studies—a subject to which Armenians are no strangers—convened…

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News

Protesters March Against Serge Sarkisian’s Possible Return as Prime Minister

YEREVAN (A.W.)—This past weekend, a group of around 100 citizens from the grassroots initiative Չէ՛ք անցկացնի/No Pasaran (a term which,…

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Headline

Loosening Up Armenia’s Labor Code: An Interview With A Local Anti-Corruption Lawyer

It has been months now that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia is preparing changes to the…

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