A magazine built around light
The Armenian word lyus means light, and light has always been our organizing idea. Armenia is a country that learned early how to keep a flame burning — through mountains and empires, through manuscripts copied by candle and songs carried across continents. LyunSe was created to point that light at the things worth seeing: a new exhibition in a Yerevan courtyard, a village festival that predates the calendar, a young band rehearsing in a borrowed basement, an idea that deserves an audience.
We are a culture-first publication, but culture for us is wide. It includes the concert and the classroom, the monastery and the marathon, the debate about the economy and the argument about a poem. What ties it together is attention — the decision to look closely at Armenian life and describe it honestly, warmly and well.
What you’ll find here
Our newsroom is organized into sections that mirror the way our readers actually live. Culture is our flagship — music, theatre, visual art, film and the literary anniversaries that punctuate the Armenian year. Artsakh gathers the heritage and human stories of Nagorno-Karabakh. Society follows the volunteers, movements and social initiatives changing daily life, while Education tracks how a young generation learns and builds.
Beyond the arts, we cover Sport, Economy, the Environment and the International stories that shape Armenia’s place in the world. And because LyunSe began as a broadcast, we keep two studios alive online: LyunSe TV for short documentary video and RadioArt for the music and audio culture we can’t stop championing.
Open to every voice
One section stands slightly apart. Free Microphone is our open platform — a place for essays, first-person reports and dissenting opinion from readers and contributors who have something to say and the nerve to say it. It is the clearest expression of what LyunSe is for: not a single voice, but a chorus of people trying to find, and share, their own light.
If you are curious about who we are and how we work, read about LyunSe. If you’d like to pitch a story, join Free Microphone or simply say hello, our door is always open — get in touch.
Latest across the sections
- Culture — Why the Armenian calendar of anniversaries is a national art form of its own.
- Artsakh — Reading a landscape: the monasteries, khachkars and carpets of Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Society — The quiet revolution of Armenian volunteering.
- Environment — Lake Sevan and the long argument over a national treasure.
- RadioArt — The duduk, and why a single reed can hold a whole culture.