"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.”
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...”
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..
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.
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.
Samvel’s Campaign Cash, Robert’s Map, Nikol’s Sorrow, and Gagik’s Christ
What’s going on in pre-election Armenia?
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...
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.
Background Noise in Ideology
I am not even saying ‘politics is the unconscious,’ but only ‘the unconscious is politics’
Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin
“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”
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”.
Demarcation on the Ground: Along Armenia’s Tavush
In Shamshadin, people want the borders to reopen. In Azatamut, they prefer things to stay as they are. One thing is clear: it won’t be like it was before 1987..