On May 28th, 2025, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani head of state Ilham Aliyev inaugurated an airport in Lachin, a former crossing point between the Republic of Armenia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Its opening reveals the symbolic and material dimensions of Azerbaijan’s takeover. Lachin, which yesterday represented the bottleneck of a […]
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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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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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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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
Originally published in French on March 19, 2025 Taline Papazian, political scientist, lecturer at Sciences Po and director of API, was interviewed by Ani Paitjan for CivilNet on March 18, 2025, about the “agreement on the text” between Armenia and Azerbaijan announced on the 13th of March. While a joint text has been validated, it
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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
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
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
On August 18, 2024, Armenia Peace Initiative (API), in partnership with the State Crisis Management Academy of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Armenia, held an awards ceremony for volunteers who had completed the ‘First Aid Elements’ course in the border community of Tavush. Colonel Armine Hayrapetyan, Acting Rector of the Academy,
