Armenia Now has an interesting if perhaps overly optimistic article ahead of the next scheduled meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents to resolve the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh for Tuesday. According to the article, a largely credible newspaper reports that gradual moves to implement a final peace plan are currently underway.
[…] the Russian […]
Reporters Without Borders is organizing an online campaign against net censorship. The campaign focuses on 13 countries with particularly bad records in this area as well as Yahoo who have self-imposed restrictions, as well as worked with the local authorities to persecute dissidents and journalists, in China.
More than 60 cyber-dissidents around the world are currently […]
I’ve just come back from a quick drink with Tom de Waal, Caucasus Editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, before he had to shoot off for some reception, and IWPR’s Armenia Country Director, Seda Muradyan. Beforehand, Tom launched the Russian translation of his book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and […]
With the Armenian President scheduled to make an official visit to Kazakhstan tomorrow, PanArmenian.net says that it will coincide with the second meeting of the Kazakh-Armenian Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation. However, Artyom at iArarat jokes that all might not be as it seems.
And so the rumor has it, that after meeting Premier George […]
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has two articles dedicated to the murdered Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. In the first, Tom de Waal remembers the “defender of ordinary people’s rights.”
Some people who work in conflict zones have walked with death for so long that they seem untouched by it and only more alive. […]
Following on from Friday’s news that opposition newspaper editor Arman Babajanian has been jailed for four years for avoiding military service in Armenia, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has issued an alert. First, the news as reported by RFE/RL’s ArmeniaLiberty.
The court backed prosecutors’ claim that Arman Babajanian of “Zhamanak Yerevan†used fake documents […]
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 […]
It’s 3.40 am in the morning and I’ve just got back from picking my Mum up from the airport. Not only was the plane delayed for over 2 hours, but British Airways lost her baggage. It might arrive tomorrow or Wednesday, but at least they gave her $100 as compensation on the spot.
Anyway, my Mum […]
Don’t you just love the local Armenian media? No sense of how to work properly at all, and once again my images have been taken off the Internet and used without permission or even a credit. Worse than that, the news item by ArmenPress is something that doesn’t reflect the reality behind the story.
YEZIDI […]
The BBC reports that Reuters has dropped one of its freelance photographers in Lebanon after discovering that some of his images had been doctored before being sent out on the wires and published worldwide. Interestingly, the report says that bloggers were instrumental in identifying that images had been manipulated.
The news agency Reuters has withdrawn from […]
