The military actions that began on the morning of February 28, 2026, have become the most large-scale direct confrontation between Iran and its adversaries—the United States and Israel. Initial US/Israeli air and missile strikes against targets inside Iran triggered a retaliatory response from Tehran. Despite the significant scale of the strikes, the conflict currently remains […]
As of February 1, 2025, the number of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians who have left Armenia and not yet returned stands at 15,000 people. The total number of forcibly displaced Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians is 150,000. This figure represents residents who left Nagorno‑Karabakh as a result of the 2020 war and the ethnic cleansing carried out by Azerbaijan in […]
Four years have passed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. During this time, the conflict has gone through several phases—from the advance of mechanized columns and maneuver offensives to a prolonged positional struggle and a stage of systemic attrition. The war has taken on a character in which not […]
The main long-term assistance program for people forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh is the housing provision program, which envisages supporting families in acquiring housing. The amount of assistance ranges between 2 and 5 million drams per family member. One of the main requirements to become a beneficiary of the program is acquiring new citizenship of the […]
The United States has officially announced, for the first time, a major sale of military technology to Armenia. The deal concerns the delivery of V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) reconnaissance drones worth $11 million. This was announced by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance following talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan […]
Protests in Iran’s History In Iran, any protest, in the field of analysis — both Iranian and international — becomes an occasion for two main narratives: “The protests are about social, economic, and individual freedoms, but they are not against the Islamic Republic,” and, “The protests are about social, economic, and individual freedoms as a […]
Political polarization is the displacement of social diversity from the political arena, replacing it with a categorical division of “us versus them.” This model becomes the main principle by which the political field is structured and the core subject of political debate—both in form and in substance. All other issues become secondary, and their solutions […]
In the context of modern states, questions concerning the state and religion, as well as separation of state and church, encompassing both political and legal dimensions, have been a subject of scholarly and public debate in democratic world for about two centuries now. Scholars have developed a range of classification models to describe the relationship […]
The Armenian Minister of Defense’s address summarizing the results of 2025 overall gives the impression of a managerial report on the administration of a large state institution. Almost all key theses are built around finances and social programs, while issues of armaments, military equipment, combat training, and operational thinking remain on the periphery. A brief […]
