In August 2022, Gor Badalyan launched Ayn Rand Center Armenia (ARCA). Gor is himself an alumnus of the John Galt School (JGS) in Georgia and has been running another organization in Armenia, The Breath of Liberty, over the past two years. Through The Breath of Liberty, he has organized and hosted two John Galt Schools.
Beginning in 2022, Gor has organized and hosted seasonal Objectivism reading groups where students study and discuss Ayn Rand’s works, including Summer Book Club in Nature and Autumn Book Club at the Art Museum.
In the fall of 2023, ARCA launched the program Hello Objectivism at Yerevan State University’s Faculty of Philosophy. The program is introducing Objectivism to YSU’s philosophy students and is taught by Objectivist teachers from within the Prometheus Network. Gor will scale this program to the Faculty of Medicine in 2025 and plans also to expand to other Armenian universities.
