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Repatriation Week 2025 - “Manipulations in Contracts: Dominance, Coercion, Traps, and Compliance”
Office
On September 10, as part of the Repatriation Week series of events, the Repatriation and Integration Center hosted a lecture on “Manipulations in Contracts: Dominance, Coercion, Traps, and Compliance”.
The lecture was delivered by Areg Akopyan, founder and managing partner of Easy Life Consulting Group and founder of the Association of Repatriate Lawyers of Armenia.
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10 Sept 2025
Repatriation Week 2025 - Amateur Chess Tournament
Office
On September 10, the Tigran Petrosian Chess House hosted a chess tournament for school-aged repatriated children, as part of the Repatriation Week series of events.
The tournament brought together over thirty young participants from seven countries: Russia, Bulgaria, France, Syria, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Kazakhstan. The competition followed the Swiss system, with 16 pairs competing.
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10 Sept 2025
Repatriation Week 2025 - “Entrepreneurship: What You Need to Know”
Office
On September 9, as part of the Repatriation Week series of events, the Repatriation and Integration Center hosted a master-class titled “Entrepreneurship: What You Need to Know”.
The session was led by repatriate, financial consultant, and business growth strategist Mardiros Palazian.
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09 Sept 2025
Repatriation Week 2025 - Heritage Excursion to Shirak Region
Office
On September 9, as part of Repatriation Week, 25 repatriates from Russia, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Canada, Germany, and Kazakhstan participated in a heritage excursion to Shirak.
They visited the medieval monastic complexes of Harich and Marmashen, as well as the Turpanjian Theological College of Harich Monastery, where they learned about the educational conditions.
The repatriates also toured the historical center of Gyumri and visited the Hovhannes Shiraz House-Museum.
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09 Sept 2025
Repatriation Week 2025 - kicked off with a roundtable discussion on “Current Issues of Repatriation”
Office
On September 8, the Repatriation Week 2025 kicked off with a roundtable discussion on “Current Issues of Repatriation.” During the event, the RA High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs, Zareh Sinanyan, presented the programs and initiatives of the Office and the Repatriation and Integration Center.
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08 Sept 2025
The 2024–2025 cohort of the iGorts program has officially concluded
Office
The 2024–2025 cohort of the iGorts program, which brings Diaspora Armenian professionals into Armenia’s public administration system, has officially concluded.
In its fifth year, the program welcomed nearly 40 specialists from 10 countries, who spent a full year working across 18 government institutions, sharing their expertise and professional experience.
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01 Sept 2025
The 2025 cycle of the Step Toward Home educational and cultural program, organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs of Armenia, has concluded
Office
The 2025 cycle of the Step Toward Home educational and cultural program, organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs of Armenia, has concluded.
The sixth stage of the program brought together 81 young Armenians from 7 countries. In total, 1,400 diaspora youth aged 13 to 18 from 27 countries applied to participate in the program, and only 600 were hosted in the homeland.
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26 Aug 2025
Armenian National Youth Forum 2025 - Future-Focused Cooperation: Armenia-Diaspora Youth in Action
Office
The final panel discussion of the Armenian National Youth Forum 2025 was dedicated to the topic of “Future-Focused Cooperation: Armenia-Diaspora Youth in Action.”
The speakers of the discussion were members of the forum's advisory bodies — Anahit Sinanyan, Arman Ghaloosian, Gevorg Sargsyan, and Javier Polatian — who presented the cooperation roadmap developed and shaped as a result of the discussions held over the past three days.
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07 Aug 2025
Armenian National Youth Forum 2025 - Building Bridges: Community-to-Community Collaboration
Office
On August 7, as part of the third day of the Armenian National Youth Forum 2025, roundtable discussions were held on the topic “Building Bridges: Community-to-Community Collaboration.”
During the discussion, participants identified effective mechanisms for cooperation between different communities, opportunities for experience-sharing, as well as ways to apply innovative formats with the aim of promoting community development and cohesion.
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07 Aug 2025
