As the subject of the Diaspora in the process of nation-building in Armenia recently came up in two recent posts here and here on this site, as well as being the subject of one by Zarchka over at Life Around Me, it was interesting to receive a link to an article in part on this […]
The BBC reports that Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is to produce a film on the life and death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by a radioactive substance in London in November last year. The film will be based on a book, Sasha’s Story: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy, […]
RFE/RL reports that the Armenian Revolutionary Federation — Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) is once again threatening to pull out of the ruling coalition government if the coming parliamentary elections are falsified. We’ve heard all this before, of course, so maybe Aesop should of based the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf around them instead. Okay, so […]
Opposition demonstration, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
Via Martuni of Bust, RFE/RL reports that in its first-ever ruling on Armenia, the European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled against the arrest of an opposition activist at an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan’s Liberty Square four years ago. One can […]
Aram Sarkisyan, Artashes Geghamian and Stepan Demirchian, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
RFE/RL reports that several opposition party leaders are once again holding negotiations on possible electoral alliances ahead of the May vote. Deja vu, and not least because we always get this before they all accuse each […]
For the next few days or possibly weeks I don’t think I’m going to have much time to compile a digest of some of the latest posts from the English-language Armenian Blogosphere. However, I would like to point you all in the direction of Armenia Blog which seems to be doing a good job of […]
Infant House, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia © EveryChild / Onnik Krikorian 2005
After mentioning children in residential care in a previous post I’ve just noticed that the Institute for War & Peace Reporting have two articles on a related subject — adoption in the Caucasus. In the first, Tamar Kadagidze looks at efforts to quicken the […]
After mentioning the circle.am web statistics service all week I noticed a new site had been registered by the Gavar Special School. As I mentioned in my last post, children in residential institutions are a long term project of mine, and so I was not only glad to find that this site had been set […]
Infant House, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia © EveryChild / Onnik Krikorian 2005
Just as I was starting to wonder what I’d be doing before the parliamentary elections are upon us, some good news. It might be that I’ll be returning to Georgia in the near future to do more work on social vulnerability there. Last time […]
Homeless, Chamber Music Hall, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2005
Following on from running into a dead homeless person lying in the middle of the street on the way to kindergarten with my son last week, I ran into one that was thankfully breathing today. Actually, I’ve seen Samuel around my […]
