Strategic communications adviser, adjunct professor, and TAP board member, Arda Nazerian, wrote a powerful reminder in her Newsday guest essay of why U.S. foreign aid still matters and how its absence is felt in places like Armenia.

According to USA Today, Armenian Easter Plav is one of the top 10 dishes to try this year!

Published by TAP interns, this article explores the lives of Karabakh Armenians after the war, the blockade, and displacement. It also covers the difficulties Karabakh Armenians are facing, their lives in Armenia today, and more.

New Eastern Europe explores Armenia’s tech evolution. Ranked 63rd in the 2024 Global Innovation Index and leading venture funding in the South Caucasus, Armenia’s tech scene is gaining international recognition.

The Winemaker’s Table: Areni Vineyards, brought to life by OneArmenia and 2492.travel, has made TIME’s prestigious list of the World’s Greatest Places for 2025.

Days after Armenia won PATWA’s 2025 Destination of the Year for Adventure Tourism, this feature confirms its natural beauty and appeal for adventure lovers.

Despite losing his homeland and vineyard to war, Grigori Avetissyan is determined to keep his native grapes and thousand-year-old traditions alive.

Today, approximately 900 children are looked after by the state. A further 170 children live with foster families – and this figure is expected to grow.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was at the American University of Armenia last week to speak on global leaders’ complacency with what she called “Azeri Crimes.” Thunberg explained why she didn’t attend COP29 held in Baku.

The multimedia exhibition “Conflict Journalism Episodes” is currently on show at the Loft in Ijevan. Focusing on the Nagorno-Karabakh wars and organized by the Media Initiatives Center, the display has been touring Armenia since January 2023.

Souren Harutunyan, also known as Surik, was born and raised in Armenia, and has lived his whole life in his home in a small village in Goris on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

Nagorno-Karabakh, known to the Armenians as Artsakh, is the spiritual heartland of the Armenian people. It is where they developed their alphabet and where they managed to cling to a measure of sovereignty.

More than a quarter of a century since gaining its independence following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenia has built a thriving tech sector that encompasses Western technology giants and a slew of local startups.

What happened in Nagorno-Karabakh is one of the most egregious examples of rights abuses that I have seen. And what’s unique about this is that it’s gone virtually under the radar for the international community.

Pressure by activists to change the location of the COP29 is mounting as the UN climate summit is set to take place in Azerbaijan. Among the activists’ concerns are the inability of Armenians to attend, their safety, and COP29’s potential to greenwash and sponsor – dictatorship and genocide.

Jazz as an art form and a way of life has been interwoven in the culture of Armenia for the past century. While the country’s relationship with the genre has evolved over time, the blues had taken over the underground music scene, giving way to the Jazz Age.

Another irony—while I was in Boston developing my knowledge and skills in government and diplomacy, my own parliament building was being demolished, with Azerbaijan's president proudly lighting a bonfire…

In a report released this week, Caucasus Heritage Watch said the number of Armenian heritage sites destroyed in Nagorno-Karabakh skyrocketed since October 2023, a month after the forcible displacement of nearly all of the region’s Armenians.

Located within a tough neighbourhood, Armenia has nonetheless retained its unique culture and wine heritage – Decanter uncovers some travel highlights.

Before my visit, my ideas of Armenia were painted by legends and old testaments. But I soon learn that this place, one of the oldest civilizations in the world, feels both ancient and animated with a vibrant creative energy.

I knew Armenia had experienced on again, off-again conflict with Azerbaijan, its neighbor to the east, over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. But I did not expect all hell to break loose precisely as I was packing to go there on a journalistic internship. 

"Artsakh, the spiritual heartland of the Armenian people, is now all but devoid of Armenians. The sturdy Karabakhi Armenians are exiled, likely never to return to their ancestral land". This is an 8,000-word account of the disappearance of a lifeworld, as told by six of its women.

While Armenia is home to the world’s oldest known winery, the industry crumbled under Soviet rule (Georgia was designated the winemaking hub, while Armenia got brandy). Over the last two decades, a dedicated wave of producers are reviving the region’s winemaking culture.

Mount Ararat is the national symbol of Armenia, but of particular importance to the country’s winemakers. Legend has it that as the biblical flood receded, Noah’s ark made landfall atop the cone of this extinct volcano, and Noah eventually descended to plant the first grapevines.