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From 1918 to 2025: The First Republic’s Message to Today’s Armenia

For the anniversary of the independence of the First Republic proclaimed on May 28th, 1918, Armenian public television broadcast an interview with journalist and public figure Tatul Hakobyan, founder of the Ani Centre. Hakobyan reflected on the historical issues surrounding this first state of the modern era and the current challenges facing the sovereign nation. […]

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Putting an End to “Celestial Armenia”

By Gaïdz Minassian Thus, the prime minister launched the debate between “real Armenia” and “historical Armenia”. The image is pertinent, the comparison a bit less so, because the word “historical” poses a problem—history being a social reality, a human science that falls within the realm of the real. What if instead of “historical Armenia”, Nikol

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Sergey Lavrov in Yerevan: Status Quo on Agreements and Disagreements

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid a working visit to the Republic of Armenia on Wednesday, May 21. The trip drew intense attention because of the complicated relationship between the two countries. In essence, both foreign ministers acknowledged that Russia and Armenia disagree on nearly everything, yet they both recognise the need to prevent their

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Dialogues des interstices : la frontière arméno-turque au prisme de l'eau partagée

Dialogues of the interstices: the Armenian-Turkish border through the prism of shared water

Originally published in French on May 6, 2025 By Elodie Gavrilof In front of the monastery of Khor Virap, facing Mount Ararat, the reality of the closed border is brutally obvious. Below, watchtowers line the road, guarding an area that is inaccessible without special authorisation and reserved for residents only. This striking militarisation is the

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Azerbaijan maintains a situation of ‘neither war nor peace’, Altay Goyushov (Baku Research Institute, visiting researcher at CERI Sciences Po)

Originally published in French on April 4, 2025 Historian Altay Goyushov, director of the Baku Research Institute (BRI), hosted at Sciences Po’s CERI as “endangered scholar” in 2024-2025, gave an interview to CivilNet in Russian on April 2, 2025, in which he discussed the current phase of the negotiation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan. According

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Cent ans d’apartheid: à Erevan, l’historien Taner Akçam projette la lumière sur le passé occulté de la République turque

One hundred years of apartheid: in Yerevan, historian Taner Akçam sheds light on the Turkish Republic’s hidden past

Originally published in French on May 6, 2025 On 25th April 2025, at the American University of Armenia (AUA), Turkish historian Taner Akçam presented the Armenian translation of his book One Hundred Years of Apartheid: A History of the Turkish Republic. A recognised specialist in the Armenian genocide and director of the Armenian genocide research

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Disinformation, influence, manipulation: France and Armenia among the targets of Moscow and Baku

Originally published in French on May 7, 2025 At a time when information warfare is redefining the balance of power between states, multiplying the levels of players involved, and when geopolitical conflicts are gaining in intensity in a deregulated international order, digital influence campaigns are emerging as political instruments in their own right. Russia, long

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Bahruz Samadov: another dissident voice silenced by the Aliyev regime

They may have left Azerbaijan, worked in exile or studied for their doctorates in European universities, but the increasingly repressive police regime in Baku is still hunting them down. In Azerbaijan, the post-2020 period is characterised by an ongoing crackdown on dissident voices: activists, academics, not to mention political opponents. Some issues are more sensitive

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