November, 2025

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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...