From Marut Vanyan

Marut Vanyan

Marut Vanyan is a freelance journalist from Artsakh/Karabakh, currently based in Armenia.
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YEREVAN — Every morning I watched from my window as Ter Minas walked down to the St. Hakob Church, which was built in 2005 in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital city of Stepanakert.[...]

KAPAN, Armenia — In Kapan, a collage of pictures of the bombed-out Iranian girls’ school and a portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei are attached to the gates of the Iranian consulate.[...]

SVARANTS, Armenia — On a recent Sunday morning, a woman receives a blessing from a priest at the Tatev Monastery, the walls echoing with the Surb Surb hymn. Someone else[...]

On December 24, 2022, exactly three years ago, many Stepanakert citizens walked to Shushi, 12 kilometers away, where Russian peacekeepers had barricaded the sole road to Yerevan, explaining that it[...]