Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 1998
Well, even if the French bill criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide doesn’t make it into law its certainly stirred up activity in the Blogosphere although it has to be said that posts by foreigners are proving better written and more interesting than ethnic […]
Yesterday Nessuna drew my attention towards the existence of photoblog.am, an Armenian-based blog bringing photographers together to discuss photographic news, equipment, and almost anything else photo-related for that matter. Acceptable languages are English, Russian and Armenian. Some interesting news there if you have $35,000 to burn, need 160 megapixels, and have a van to move […]
By Nessuna
Tonight, the American University of Armenia (AUA) hosted a public lecture entitled “Is Democracy Advancing or Retreating in the World?†by Thomas Carothers. Among other things, Carothers is Vice President for International Politics and Governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Carothers also has significant experience in the fields […]
This time it’s for real, and I’m pleased to announce that Nessuna is back on this blog. For a moment I was worried given that she had initially said she would write again, but no new posts materialized. Anyway, soon we’ll have the start of a new batch of posts from her. Now, if only […]
Zarchka has a wonderful post on contemporary Armenian music and the way in which honours are dished out by the authorities. Often these are linked to how well individuals — especially singers — serve the Government in pushing out propaganda during elections and referendums. Somewhat alarmingly, honours were recently handed out to “journalists” for the […]
Independence Day, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Yesterday was the 15th Anniversary of Armenia’s Independence from the former Soviet Union, and for the first time in seven years since the assassination of Vazgen Sarkisyan as well as others on 27 October 1999 there was a military parade on Yerevan’s Republic […]
Harmick over at Blogrel has just returned from a two month visit to Armenia which included working for a major TV station and comments on the state of the media here. I think we can all guess which station Harmick is refering to, and unfortunately I can believe that things are as described. No wonder […]
Well, what a disappointing day. Nessuna decided to delete her blog for some reason, which is a shock to the system to say the least. Perhaps she could have just left it online untouched for a while, but…
Still, it was her blog, I guess. Anyway, for whatever reason, we’ve lost a unique blogger who […]
After hearing so much from Nessuna about Lilith, a local girl studying design in Russia who’s about to continue her education in the U.K., I finally got the chance to meet her last night. Not only that, but along with Nahro Zagros, the Yorkshire Kurd, I got to play my first game of Mafia.
Mafia […]
As mentioned previously, there will be less blogging than usual in the next month for a variety of reason, but not least because I shall be away from Yerevan for some of that time. The first real break where there will be no posts at all is now upon us. Until 26 August there will […]
