A friend has sent me an interesting article from last month’s Eurasia Daily Monitor. Given the firebrand nature of the Georgian President, and the fact that most educated and middle class Georgians I met in Tbilisi last year told me that he was mad, the Georgian press is now asking questions about Saakashvili’s mental health.
On […]
Victory Park, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Hetq Online 2006
As I posted two days ago, yesterday was a public holiday to mark the anniversary of the adoption of the 1995 Armenian Constitution. However, most people I knew forgot why it was a holiday, and others didn’t know. For those working in the […]
As almost anyone who knows me will tell you, I can’t live without music. Any genre, I need music to live. As a result, the local music scene in Armenia has often disappointed me. Usually, it’s government connections and sponsors that determine if an artist is succesful or not. It’s certainly not the market as […]
As some circles attempt to limit concerns about the increasing number of attacks on Armenians in Russia, Zarchka at Life Around Me says that they continue to occur. One of the attacks was on popular Russian singer Jasmine although somewhat ironically, although her attackers identified her as an ethnic Armenian, she apparently denies this. Nevertheless, […]
With tomorrow marking the anniversary adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, statements about the inviolability of the document as the basis for the State abound. First up is the Armenian Prime Minister, Andranik Markarian.
“The Organic Law helped to realize the fundamental principles of independent Armenia and was the guarantor of its […]
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Given the nature of Armenian society — that is, the way in which contacts, friendships and acquaintances are generally based on family and family-based relations — I’ve really appreciated using ICQ to break free of the often very closed social groups that tend to be defined by clans, class […]
Garo (AKA Christian Garbis) over at Notes from Hairenik has two interesting posts relating to the new construction occuring in central Yerevan. As almost everyone in Armenia knows, this new construction is mainly being undertaken by officials or businessmen close to the Government and invariably accompanied by allegations of corruption, the violation of human rights, […]
Via Martuni or Bust comes news that police have arrested Stepan Hakobyan in connection with the assassination of a senior member of the Yerkrapah Union of Karabakh War Veterans a little over a week ago. The murder also claimed the life of an innocent bystander, 37-year-old mother of three, Karine Sargsyan. I’m told that had […]
As many people will tell you in Armenia, sex still remains a taboo subject in Armenia. Despite the growth in the number of strip bars in Yerevan, the open availability of prostitutes, and the way many girls dress provocatively while strutting their stuff in the city center, Armenia still remains a fairly traditional society in […]
