Armenia’s labor market has always been small, but recently the demand for vacancies has increased due to the large-scale influx of Russians and citizens of India into the country. And since September last year, more than 100 thousand residents of Nagorno-Karabakh have joined them. If those who moved from Russia are mostly provided...
Thousands of people who moved from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia have settled in various regions of Armenia. They are trying to adapt to the conditions of life here and get used to the new circumstances – the loss of their homeland, their homes and all their property.
The Karabakh war of 2020 and the September 2023 hostilities have changed life in the southern, Syunik, region of Armenia. This is especially true for the economic development of the region, the ability of local residents to earn and support their families.
“In the passport control line at the Zvartnots airport in Yerevan, which looks very spacious and somehow festive, my anxiety reared its head. I looked at the faces of the border guards trying to guess which of them was kindest. I was directed to one of them. He scrutinized my...
The Karabakh conflict isolated Armenian and Azerbaijani societies from each other for 30 years. While older generation still remembers how the two peoples lived in peace, many young people have never seen their peers from the “enemy” country. Thanks to state propaganda and stereotypes rooted in society, Armenian and Azerbaijani...
With the help of animation, an artist wants to show the degree of similarity between the Armenian and Azerbaijani peoples and help them get rid of the “image of the enemy”
Will Armenians and Azerbaijanis be able to live together and treat each other as equals, or will they remain enemies, trying to solve the conflict by force? Important decisions are usually made by governments and politicians, but, often, a lot depends on the position of the ordinary citizens, especially when...
Although the Armenian and Azerbaijani societies live in isolation from each other, in the unrecognized Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) there is a very small group of Armenians who communicate with Azerbaijanis almost every day – at work.
The Tbilisi-Gyumri-Kars railway remains closed, and with it the opportunities for communication between Armenians and Turks, as well as Azerbaijanis. In his blog, Armenian journalist Alexander Martirosyan reflects on how the second Karabakh war ended up closing communication routes and the difficulty of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
