“Suitcase” – The annual journalism award has been wrapped up

The first prize was awarded to Lusine Manvelyan, Seda Arakelyan and Christina Avanyan – journalists from the “Hetq” Media Media Factory - for their article “We didn’t feel like we were in our country”: why Russians are resettling in Armenia?”

The second prize was awarded to Anahit Harutyunyan – a journalist with the EVN Report, for her two-part article “Ill and in Anticipation of a Miracle in Germany”.

The third prize was simultaneously awarded to two authors: Suren Deheryan from the Ampop.am news agency for his “On the way of wandering: Stories of Ukrainian women who fled the war” project and Gohar Abrahamyan – a journalist with the EVN Report – for her article “Displacement: starting again and again.” It should be noted that Gohar is also last year’s winner. 

Five more people were awarded incentive prizes:

• Grigor Harutyunyan for his reportage: “More than 700 applications have been received to get a refugee status”

• Armine Avetisyan from iwpr.net for her work: “Armenian Migrants to EU Face Rejection”.

• Sona Martirosyan from jam-news.net for her article: “Not a homeland, but a home”: how refugees find asylum in Armenia”

• Gayane Sargsyan from jam-news.net for her piece: “Armenia can repeat Singapore’s success”: businessmen who moved from Russia”
  

• Hasmik Dilanyan from the Armenian Public Radio for her article: “They will take a fingerprint and will undergo a medical examination”