armenia remains a dream, a subject of stories, yet still, against all odds, a place. you, what do you own the world? how do you own disorder disorder now somewhere between the sacred silence sacred silence and sleep disorder, disorder i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: armenia is a small, landlocked christian nation surrounded by mostly non-christian neighbors. azerbaijan over there, iran down there, and turkey right there. turkey, and relations with turkey, and the armenian people s terrible history with that country being the central and defining issue of armenian identity. and a present-day political reality 103 years after what just about anyone would call genocide. turkey has always adamantly denied that, saying it was simply
The world has long been embroiled in conflicts over precious natural resources However, since the mid-20th century, countries have become more acutely aware than ever of the looming threat of water scarcity
a veritable silicon valley of the caucuses, that largely spared them of the worst of soviet rule. and also, perhaps, the reason that it continues to be a leader in it. i meet a few members from the tech community at a local brewery in yerevan. arthur, an industry writer. harut, a software engineer. and ruben, a cyber-security consultant. anthony: so, what are you making? what is coming of this ? i.t. is a big- it s a big house. arthur: so, websites, web-based stuff and chip design, we re all over the place actually. but this comes from the old times, like in soviet times, what happened is they manufactured chips, lots of electronic stuff i heard for soviet submarines and things like that. ruben: but actually, it was an issue of success story in the
soviet time. i mean you can have a success story if you were a communist party official or if you were doing science, or perhaps artist, and that s it. and the science was the most clean career. i mean, you were not compromising your own beliefs and you were doing something good. anthony: if you were to imagine the perfect business, or the most efficient export for a land-locked nation with most of its borders closed, it would be information technology, right? or, to put it simply, brains. anthony: you teach chess in school, is that? ruben: yes. anthony: in school? ruben: yup, in school. anthony: starting at what age? arthur: third grade. my son hates it. he s a fourth grader. ruben: second grade. anthony: so everybody plays chess or was taught chess? ruben yeah, everybody. anthony: that already is a very different- harut: i have a ranking, actually. arthur: really? i didn t know. come on. harut: small one, but-