December, 2025

• 16 December

  

  AI Data Center in Hrazdan Proceeds While Environmental Checks Are Bypassed

  Firebird AI’s project smokescreens a multitude of issues that such a large-scale enterprise could raise, particularly for the environment and public health..
• 15 December

  

  Rescued Cats and Dogs, Bucha Region, Ukraine

  Hostomel shelter hosts over 600 cats and dogs, most of them rescued from the war zone.
• 7 December

  

  “Слава Україні” sounds very much like “Слава Украине”

  The popular theory was that this was the start of the inevitable and fast fall of the Russian Empire. I still don’t know how those people were measuring “fast.” 
• 5 December

  

  Listen to an Unprofessional Ukrainian

  I remember meeting my brother at the kamvolni. His face streaked with blood, one eye swollen, clothes torn...

November, 2025

• 29 November

  

  Hair and Lip Fillers Off, Chest Flattened — I Go to See My Folks

  People don’t really clock me: neighbors, shopkeepers — no clue I’m trans.
• 27 November

  

  My Mom Has Dementia — and Soon I Might Too

  My mother always said: “If something happens to me, take me to a care center without guilt...”
• 24 November

  

  Yet Another Night of Shelling: Reporting from Kyiv

  We never managed to reach other districts—it was already dark, and a new air-raid alert had been declared.
• 21 November

  

  Don’t Forget to Remember: Dementia Is No Priority for Armenian Health Care

  Most often, we learn about the illness from the caregivers. They look exhausted, limit their social lives, struggle with depression and burnout..
• 13 November

  

  There is No Such Thing as Documentary

  ...we are afraid to show our confusion in public, but much depends on how we respond to it.
• 8 November

  

  Samvel’s Campaign Cash, Robert’s Map, Nikol’s Sorrow, and Gagik’s Christ

  What’s going on in pre-election Armenia?