Club stand-up in Yerevan, Cond House Almost every week, a small group of people gathers in the basement of the Cond House, one of the most hidden places in Yerevan. They are all stand-up artists and fans of this form of performance art. Performances usually start at around ten in...
A walk in London’s Chelsea district leads Leila to an Armenian church, and the girl decides to photograph it to share it with her new acquaintances from a closed Facebook group where Azerbaijanis and Armenians discuss “cinema, wine and dominoes”, trying very hard to avoid sensitive topics and conflicts. Leila,...
Murad Nabiyev, owner of Art Garden creative space in Azerbaijan’s western city of Ganja talks about the shelling of the city in October 2020 during the second Karabakh war: “On the afternoon of October 4, I came to open the cafe as usual. I went down to put things in...
For the last five years, Armen Hakobyan’s life has been dedicated to the business of his dreams. Armen runs and constantly strives to improve his Aqua World store in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), where he sells fish and aquarium accessories. At the Sunday market in Yerevan, located in an...
The loss of Karabakh and the desire for revenge have been a unifying idea for the Azerbaijani people for almost thirty years. Lost areas were listed on the first page of school diaries, signs on the roads led to them, and the news every morning greeted us with the usual...
Armine Martirosyan from the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic tells a story about how she accidentally ended up with a police baton on the eve of the first Karabakh war (1991-1994) and the symbolic role it played during the second Karabakh war of September-November 2020. “This police baton came to me in...
Grigor talks about his life as a migrant from Karabakh and how events can develop differently if you think about peace and security. “Cruelty, pain, death of innocent people. If God saw it from the height of heaven, he would be disappointed in us.” “I come from the Hadrut region...
