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Every year the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets organizes the collection of flowers laid at the Genocide Memorial on April 24. The flowers are then recycled into handmade paper.

Varak Ketsemanian presents a critical analysis of Sona B. Dadoyan’s work, “2015, The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight: A Discourse,” a timely and critical piece of scholarship that sheds light on the intellectual crisis of the 21st century Armenian reality.

This year, the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Research and Documentation marks its 35th anniversary. The Institute's core concept is to serve the cause of scholarship and public awareness relating to issues of universal human rights, genocide and diaspora-homeland relations.

Awarded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide, co-founders of the initiative Ruben Vardanyan and Noubar Afeyan announced the nominees for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity 2017 in Yerevan on April 24.

We need a social reformation to find the path to hope and the transformation starts with ourselves. Ahead of the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Maria Titizian writes about the importance of having hope.

In this post-Election essay, Paul Chaderjian reflects on how a group of his peers, men and women from all walks of life, made a collective effort on April 2 to serve as citizen observers in the homeland.

Security expert Samvel Martirosyan writes that Armenia and Azerbaijan are not only waging war on the battlefield but in the media, through social networks, on academic platforms - all platforms where it is possible to disseminate information and propaganda.

Irony lurks in every corner of Armenia, writes Sergey Sargsyan, the "Russian boy" who went into the voting booth and got himself a neat Armenian accent.

In this moving piece, Paul Chaderjian writes about belonging and identity, of hovering in a ‘Go Between’ space, suspended between two worlds and how unexpected encounters make connecting to the concept of home a reality.

Arto Vaun writes about the passing of Artur Sargsyan, the man who broke through heavy police barricades to deliver food to the Sasna Dzrer and in doing so, became something of a legend.