RFE/RL reports that the republic is once again considered “Partly Free” by Freedom House. RFE/RL quotes the U.S. based organization as laying the blame firmly on a “limited respect for political rights and civil liberties.â€
The Washington-based group again evaluated the state of political rights and civil liberties in each of the 193 countries surveyed […]
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 […]
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 […]
It seems that all three capitals of the South Caucasus Republics are facing a crisis in terms of traffic congestion and pollution. The Instiute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), for example, published an article on traffic jams in Baku and how the Azerbaijani Government is seeking to address the problem.
In March 2006, the […]
Demonstration in support of Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan, Arabkir District, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Following the arrest of Zhirayr Sefilyan and Vardan Malkhasyan by the National Security Service (NSS) for allegedly plotting a coup d’etat, a few hundred supporters staged a demonstration in their defense. For some reason […]
Via Save Roj TV, Caucaz has published an article on the Yezidis in Georgia. Although significantly smaller than the Yezidi community in Armenia, Georgian Yezidis are interesting because they are largely urbanized and the division as to ethnic identity is not as large or problematic as it is here. Therefore, as we don’t hear a […]
Via Bekaisa, there’s an account of a recent visit to Armenia by two Azerbaijanis and a Turk. As it’s in Russian, there’s thankfully an English translation. Anyway, it starts off interesting enough with their journey into Armenia from Georgia. As anyone who knows the route well will tell you, buses and cars from Armenia usually […]
It’s 3am in the morning and I’m not even half way through sending 40 high resolution images to a magazine in the United States. And it’s no wonder. I’m sitting at my computer in Yerevan where we have to make do with crappy dial up connections costing around $40-50 a month because of the damn […]
Today as I read the newspaper, Serzh Sarkisyan’s comments struck me as unbelievably short sighted and almost comical. I was reading a week old paper and in it Serzh said that he does not see Russia’s acquiring of Armenia’s utilities as dangerous. He continued to say that he does not see Russia using […]
Transparency International, the world’s leading anti-corruption watchdog, today released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI). According to the organization based in Germany but with a Chapter in Armenia, there is no progress in the fight against corruption here. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s English language site has more.
An international anti-corruption watchdog has ranked Armenia 93rd […]
