Please forgive me for not posting regularly, I am now at the epicentre of the reason this blog exists, the place we talk about, gossip about, report about, and complain about : Armenia.
I will try not to bore you with the usual “change is slow but its happening” kinda stuff but just a […]
Noravank, Vayots Dzor, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Habitat for Humanity 2006
Noravank, Vayots Dzor, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Habitat for Humanity 2006
Aghavnadzor, Vayots Dzor, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Habitat for Humanity 2006
My second visit out to a site with Habitat for Humanity in Armenia took me to Aghavnadzor in the Vayots Dzor region of the country. As part of the Catholicos Karekin II Work Project, a group of Diasporan Armenians mainly from Detroit […]
Yeghegnadzor, Vayots Dzor, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006
While out in the field with Habitat for Humanity today, a pleasant surprise was running into the Hye Riders on their way back to Yerevan from Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh. Armenia is so small. Anyway, I blogged about the Hye Riders here, here, here, […]
Botanical Gardens, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Tufenkian Foundation 2006
Today, as part of work commissioned by the Tufenkian Foundation, I visited a nursery operating under the umbrella of the Armenian Forests NGO situated in the Botanical Gardens in Yerevan. According to the NGO’s web site, Armenian Forests was established by Armenian-American philanthropist […]
As Batumi in the Republic of Georgia prepares for a massive influx of local and foreign tourists, Noyan Tapan reports that a Yerevan-Batumi train service started operation on 17 June. Last year, attracted by more competitive prices, better service and tourism infrastructure, and a nicer climate than Lake Sevan, at least 10,000 Armenians visited the […]
Nessuna has posted a new entry about her second day in Stepanakert, capital of the breakaway territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Situated within the borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the mainly Armenian-populated region is now a defacto independent state albeit not officially recognized as such — not even by Armenia.
The Soviet Union established the […]
Stepanakert, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2001
Well, it has to be said that today is a really good day for the Armenian blogosphere in so much that we really have some genuine content coming out of the country. No crap about how the cafes are wonderful in [only] the center […]
As Zarchka over at Life Around Me prepares for tomorrow’s dreaded stylistics exam, a quick post to wish her well. I know that she’s been revising very hard for this exam in order to get full marks. She won’t fail, for sure, but she is aiming for another top mark in this one too. Good […]
Ortachiya, Aragatsotn Region, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006
Since working on the Kurds in Turkey and researching the Yezidi in Armenia for the London-based Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) in 1998, every so often a visiting academic from Europe always brings me back to take a look at Armenia’s largest minority. […]
