Yearly Archives: 2025
November, 2025
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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?
October, 2025
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15 October
KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”
“The chance to speak Russian without an accent” — that’s how the chief explained his curiosity about our company. We, for our part, admitted that we’d never before shared a table with an officer of the Russian FSB. -
11 October
Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin
“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.” -
6 October
Two Cultures of Denunciation
Or, as Stalin would have put it, it’s class war. And if it’s class war, perhaps I should just stick to my own class standpoint and continue to oppose snitching in almost all circumstances. But wait...
September, 2025
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15 September
Background Noise in Ideology
I am not even saying ‘politics is the unconscious,’ but only ‘the unconscious is politics’ -
7 September
An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev’s Kremlin — A Conversation with Pietro A. Shakarian
Khrushchev had a different and much more utopian approach. He believed that national differences were no longer relevant. Mikoyan said “no”.
August, 2025
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27 August
‘Sew Faster’ at Gunpoint: Indian Workers Strike at Ijevan Factory
Workers both live and work on-site, under continuous surveillance—more than 40 cameras are installed throughout the premises...
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