How this site works

Significance (0–10)

The significance score is objective: it measures how much an event has a long-term impact on Armenia, Armenians, and the country's strategic environment — not how interesting or sensational it is. An AI (Gemini) rates each story on a 0–10 scale, weighing:

• Reach — how many people does it affect?
• Severity — how deep is the impact?
• Durability — how long-lasting and pivotal is it (the most important factor)?
• Novelty — is it genuinely new, or a continuation of a known story?

Source credibility (reliability, not political stance) and the number of independent sources are also taken into account.

• Below 3 — sports, entertainment, minor local items.
• Above 5 — events pivotal for the country or region.
• 9–10 — rare, defining events.

Sentiment

Each story gets a label: positive, neutral, or negative. The event itself is judged — a successful rescue is positive, even if the text sounds grim.

Impartiality

The system rates significance and source reliability, not political stance. We don't filter stories by leaning and don't claim absolute neutrality. We encourage you to compare different sources and verify information yourself.

Deduplication

Stories about the same event from different outlets are grouped into one — not just by headline wording, but by meaning, including the same news across languages (Armenian, Russian, English).

Updates & sources

The feed updates automatically every hour. Data is kept for about a month.

Source classification (who's covering it)

Under each story you can see the political field of the outlets covering it — pro-government, independent, or opposition. This is not a judgment of an outlet's truthfulness; it's a fact about who owns it.

Classifications are based on the Media Ownership Monitor (a joint project of Hetq and the Global Media Registry) and the public record — e.g. an outlet owned by an opposition MP is labeled “opposition”; a state news agency, “pro-government.” The political labels (pro-government / independent / opposition) are our own interpretation of that ownership data, not classifications made by MOM.

Only classified sources are shown, and the caption states how many of the total are classified. A “one-sided” note means only one political field is covering the story — an observation about coverage, not about the outlets' quality.

Classifications are approximate and may be contested. If you disagree with one, contact us.