Archive for the ‘Neighbors’ Category

Who is he fooling?

Friday, November 17th, 2006

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 […]

The Spy Scandal in Georgia Another Attempt To Divert Public Opinion?

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

…that probably wasn’t the first point in Sahakashvili’s agenda. Still, that’s what Georgia is clearly getting out of the scandal: according to data from the Regional Electoral Committee of Akhalkalaki (the predominantly Armenian populated town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region in Georgia), Akhalkalaki with 7052 voters will have 1 delegate to the regional sakrebulo (regional collegial self-government body), which is as many as the Georgian village Ptena with 204 voters.

Armavia Plane Crashes

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Bad weather is slowing recovery of the bodies of 113 people killed when a plane flying from Armenia to southern Russia crashed into the Black Sea. - BBC NEWS

Nakhichevan Destruction Update

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Here’s an interesting report on the ongoing destruction of the Armenian heritage in Nakhichevan (parts of this appeared in ArmeniaNow.com last year, I think).

Here’s an excerpt of a conversation the author had with the Nakhichevan law enforcement in September 2005:

They asked me why I thought that there was a church in Shorut.
“Because a book had […]