Caucasus Institute Blog

Three elements form the society that we have now. Only one of them was developed during the last century with the invention of affordable transportation for mass use (e.g., airplanes, trains, and cars). The first two are wars, agriculture, and animal domestication, and the last one is globalization (e.g., trade, tourism, traveling). It is out […]

The newly emerged Covid-19 pandemic is a litmus test for the governments to ensure the freedom of expression and freedom of media during the crisis and secure that the emergency measures are not being implemented to censor news or regressive regulations are not being utilized against media freedom. Because clear communication between the governments and […]

You probably know that the US is a developed, Ukraine is a developing and Chad is an underdeveloped country. In order to ‘measure’ countries and compare them, there are numerous indicators used.[ The most important ones are GDP, GDP per capita, PPP, HDI, Unemployment rate, Inflation rate, Literacy rate, CPI, Foreign debt, etc. They mostly […]

Pandemics and epidemics, as well as various diseases, have played a major role in the development of human history and civilization. Being the result of human progress, they became one of the main reasons for the fall of the greatest empires, as well as a barrier to the conquest of new lands. The interesting connection […]

From December 2019 to January 2020, our team of three third-year students of the Translation Department at Artsakh State University implemented a project called the Creative Group. It consisted in teaching English to children from rural communities of the Martuni region of Artsakh. The goal was to teach in a non-standard format, improving the children’s […]

Eight years ago, I moved to a new area. The first acquaintances I made there were the local children who played in the streets of this remote part of Stepanakert. We celebrated Easter together and have been friends ever since. By now they are already in high school or university. They are the new young […]

While walking to work every morning on Alec Manukyan street, I see a man in an electric wheelchair crossing the road faster than the cars at rush hour on the way to his little cobbler’s workshop, which is little more than a kiosk. This man is 63-year-old Edik Abrahamyan, who suffered a spinal injury in […]

For a young woman, going into politics in Artsakh is by no means easy. Sometimes one feels one is dealing with the proverbial dragon who grows two heads for each one you chop off. The challenges are not about education or professionalism, and it isn’t your ambition that matters, it’s the public perceptions. At work, […]