Published in European stroke journal
Armenia is an upper-middle-income country with a population of nearly 3 million. Stroke is one of its major public health problems and ranks as the sixth leading cause of death, with a mortality of 75.5 per 100,000. Until recently, modern stroke care was not available in Armenia. During the past 8 years substantial advances have been made in buildi...
My research is focused on the relation between the foreign policy vector and national identity as projected by Armenia’s Prime Minister (PM) Nikol Pashinyan in the public sphere. This study is a search for expressions of ‘sameness’ and allegiance in the geopolitical balancing and reconstruction of Armenia’s foreign policy narrative, ideology and id...
New field and petrographic observations, combined with whole rock and mineral geochemical analyses are applied on volcanic rocks present in the Dali sector, east of Lake Sevan (Armenia). A small-scale sampling of the volcanic sequence allows us to identify, for the first time in Armenian ophiolites, two groups of lavas (groups B and C1) stratigraph...
The article is dedicated to the study of the types of migration, the current challenges of emigration and immigration, and the reasons for migration in Armenia, as well as its consequences on the economy and demography. The methods of comparative studies, general scientific analysis, groupings, and generalizations were mainly used in the framework ...
The Armenian-French research program (‘Mission Archéologique Caucase’) focused on the aggregated cells of the Aragats region between 2015 and 2017. The aim of this program was to establish the periodization, function and layout of these enigmatic structures. Huge numbers of these small sites were discovered in the Aragats region, thanks to satellit...
The aim of my own research is to bind together the limited research done regarding the topic,and to use the research of Russian in the Baltic post-soviet state of Lithuania as a backdrop and comparison. The analysis is postcolonial and comparative, using the concepts of linkage and leverage of Levitsky and Way. A guiding term in this work has been ...
BackgroundThere are an estimated 460,000 Armenians in the United States, and more than half live in California. Armenian-Americans are generally represented within the 'White' or 'Some Other Race' race categories in population-based research studies. While Armenians have been included in studies focused on Middle-Eastern populations, there are no s...
IntroductionIn Armenia, an upper-middle income country, 93% of deaths are from non-communicable diseases and over half of the male population smokes. Armenia has more than double the global lung cancer incidence. Over 80% of lung cancer is diagnosed at stages III or IV. However, there is a significant mortality benefit in detecting early-stage lung...
In my doctoral research, I focus on the formation and development of the community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in post-Soviet Armenia. The main research question has two parts. 1) What accounts for changing state policies towards JWs in post-Soviet Armenian and for particular public intolerance towards JWs compared to other religious minorities? 2) What...
