New First Day
A fisherman was seized while fishing and taken to the drafting station with the fishhook in his hand and still-breathing bait. Another tried to escape on a bicycle, but they caught him anyway after ramming him with a car..
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.
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”.
The Allure of the Armash Lakes
Mary and I went down to Yeraskh, the last village in the Ararat Valley, right on the border with Nakhichevan...
The Coming Insurrection։ Invisible Committee
Mass personalization. Individualization of all conditions․ Diffuse schizophrenia. Rampant depression. Atomization into fine paranoiac particles. Hysterization of contact. We cling to our self like a coveted job title.
I call it chaotic war of all against all
Pain, humiliation, and anger are individual feelings, and they remain individual even if shared by millions who go individually to vote for an Avenger in Chief.