Dvin Titizian

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Originally from Toronto, Canada, Dvin has been living in Armenia for the past 19 years. After many years of working soul-crushing jobs, she finally took a risk and quit to pursue her flirtation with

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‘We’ve left our hearts there’: Displaced by war in Nagorno-Karabakh

by Dvin Titizian

•9 min read

Over 100,000 people have been displaced in Nagorno-Karabakh during and after the latest fighting. Those who have found themselves in Armenia describe the solidarity and the suffering that dislocation has brought to their lives. While sipping sea buckthorn tea at a popular cafe in downtown Yerevan, 28-year-old Stepanakert resident Irina Safaryan recalls the day before all hell broke loose. ‘That evening we were celebrating the engagement of one of our Diasporan-Armenian friends in a popula

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Armenia’s new education standards under fire for lack of ‘Armenianness’

by Dvin Titizian

•6 min read

Armenia’s Ministry of Education has come under intense heat after circulating a draft regulation on New Standards for General Education that would overhaul the country’s public education system. Some critics have accused the ministry of trying to oppose the country’s ‘national values’. The new standards, compiled in a 50-page draft law, will reform the Armenian education system, changing modes of student performance evaluation, curriculum, and increasing school autonomy. The new standards

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