The BBC reports that Hollywood actor Johnny Depp is to produce a film on the life and death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by a radioactive substance in London in November last year. The film will be based on a book, Sasha’s Story: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy, […]
nternational Herald Tribune (Herald Asahi) 12 January 2007 :Even at 82, Charles Aznavour–the Armenian-French giant of chanson–has kept the rich baritone voice that lifts his sentimental pop songs into the sublime, winning fans the world over. In February, Aznavour will bring his extended “farewell tour” to Japan.
We all know it, it’s the first thing tourists talk about when they come to Armenia…why do the traffic police take bribes? From personal experience, I can say that it used to upset and anger me so much! Now when I think about this I laugh to myself, because I have given so many of […]
The world is made of 200 different situations, and if you do something here, doesn’t necessarily apply to everywhere else. This is what The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PC told us today in his speech on “Britain and the World”. This comment was while answering to the questions: why the invasion […]
RFE/RL reports that the Armenian Revolutionary Federation — Dashnaktsutyun (ARF-D) is once again threatening to pull out of the ruling coalition government if the coming parliamentary elections are falsified. We’ve heard all this before, of course, so maybe Aesop should of based the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf around them instead. Okay, so […]
Opposition demonstration, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
Via Martuni of Bust, RFE/RL reports that in its first-ever ruling on Armenia, the European Court of Human Rights yesterday ruled against the arrest of an opposition activist at an anti-government demonstration in Yerevan’s Liberty Square four years ago. One can […]
I remember reading that one and only issue of Forbes Armenian version and thinking: just how could this happen? How could a company like “Forbes” allow such unprofessional publication: bad layout, low quality print - but worst of all: extreemly biased reporting. It wasn’t even close to journalism - although Petros Ghazarian, then the Editor […]
Aram Sarkisyan, Artashes Geghamian and Stepan Demirchian, Liberty Square, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
RFE/RL reports that several opposition party leaders are once again holding negotiations on possible electoral alliances ahead of the May vote. Deja vu, and not least because we always get this before they all accuse each […]
While UK, at least for myself, appears as the fore-post of democracy in the world, Armenia in line with a number of other former Soviet States, has become one of the labs where the huge Russian experiment on developing a form of Contained Democracy - a democratic imitation is undertaken.
For the next few days or possibly weeks I don’t think I’m going to have much time to compile a digest of some of the latest posts from the English-language Armenian Blogosphere. However, I would like to point you all in the direction of Armenia Blog which seems to be doing a good job of […]
