Imagine walking through a familiar Yerevan underpass only to find blank walls where young Armenian faces once looked back at you. In late June 2026, municipal crews did exactly that — painting over portraits of soldiers killed defending the homeland. Among them were images of Haykaz Mkrtchyan and Robert Abajyan. For their families and countless others, this was not routine maintenance. It felt like erasure. We Armenians understand that memory is…
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