In the run-up to the 2026 parliamentary elections, Armenian people and the country’s government have increasingly found themselves in the vortex of geopolitical intrigues and great powers’ competition. September asked a socialist scholar from Armenia for an insider perspective on the economic and political situation in the country as the Civil Contract party and its leader, Nikol Pashinyan, fight for reelection amid rising internal and external pressure.

Murad Gattal on the causes and prerequisites for a new escalation in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the transformations that it caused in Azerbaijani society.