In a small Armenian town, women hold households together while men work abroad. Maria Gunko traces the unrecognized labor of waiting, remittances counted, calendars marked, tables set, and the endurance that sustains families across distance and absence.
Syunik occupies a critical place in Armenia’s security and development calculus. The EU’s Resilient Syunik initiative represents one of the largest coordinated Western-funded regional programs in the country, combining infrastructure upgrades, economic support and governance reform.
Syria’s January 2026 offensive against Rojava threatens a decade of decentralized, pluralistic governance in northeast Syria. Among those at risk are Islamized Armenians, whose hard-won political and cultural gains illustrate the fragility of local autonomy under centralization.
Examining how Armenia’s conservation priorities overlook invertebrates, despite their vital ecological roles, Anahit Ghazakhetsyan explores barriers of stigma, weak research and habitat loss, urging narratives that value the “unloved” species sustaining ecosystems.
Tracing how power reshapes cities, Heghine Pilosyan’s essay moves from Paris to Yerevan to show how architecture, land and urban form have served as instruments of authority, across monarchy, socialism and post-Soviet capitalism, revealing striking continuities beneath shifting ideologies.
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