Yerevan dresses up for New Year

December 29, 2009


Young opposition activists campagning for Pashinian severely beaten

December 28, 2009

Opposition activists beaten and taken to hospital with varying degrees of injuries, Photo via A1+

A group of young opposition activists campaigning on behalf of jailed editor Nikol Pashinian who is running for the Armenian Parliament in a January by-election, were severely beaten and taken to hospital with varying degrees of injuries. Read the rest of this entry »


Everyone else’s Christmas

December 25, 2009

christmas-tree-with-gifts-flipbook

Most of the world’s Christian nations are celebrating Christmas today… and I wish a fantastic, Merry Christmas to you all!

Frankly, I feel somewhat disadvantaged being an Armenian and celebrating Christmas on January 6th, when nobody else does. It feels, that we’re completely detached from the rest of the world.

Read the rest of this entry »


The Orange HR Mail story

December 23, 2009

I received a strange email message from the HR Team of Orange Armenia yesterday, which claimed, that I have applied to Orange Armenia for a job and they have put my CV in their database. I responded by saying, that I’ve never applied to Orange Armenia for a job and demanded them to delete the corresponding record in their database,  because otherwise I would consider it a violation of my privacy. UPDATED

Read the rest of this entry »


Blogging Karabakh, or Observer’s Top 9 list of Karabakh blogs

December 23, 2009

Monument "We Are Our Mountains", widely recognized as a symbol of Nagorno-Karabakh

I’ve been only able to draw a Top 9 list of blogs from Karabakh, because there are only 9 blogs from Karabakh that I know of currently and will greatly appreciate links to any other blogs from Karbakh out there.

Meanwhile, meet these guys (thanks to Kornelij for listing them). A common feature of all – Russian language.

Read the rest of this entry »


Recommendations of Armenian parliamentary committee provide ‘a comprehensive although not complete’ response to March 2008 crisis

December 22, 2009

Strasbourg, 22.12.2009 – The  recommendations of the ad hoc Committee of the National Assembly of Armenia into the events of 1 and 2 March 2008 provide “a comprehensive, although not complete” response to the political crisis, according to an information note by the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) made public this week.

Read the rest of this entry »


Armenian beauty wins the title of “Mrs Globe 2009″

December 22, 2009

mg2009showshots
Mrs. Globe 2009 is a beauty from Armenia, Gohar Harutyunyan. The new Mrs. Globe is a wife, mother of two, artist and former model from Armenia.
Read the rest of this entry »


Thank you, God…

December 20, 2009

image

…for the creation of chocolate!!!


Armenia’s “Hatis” beats Turkey’s “Beshiktash”, again

December 18, 2009

I’m all for basketball diplomacy after Armenia’s “Hatis-Yerevan” team beat Turkey’s “Beshiktash” again on December 17th. Our girls are cool – they beat “Beshiktash” in Istanbul 87-64  in November, and beat them again here in Yerevan – 78։72.

Read the rest of this entry »


Opera Mini: State of the Mobile Web in Armenia

December 17, 2009

image

The September issue of “State of the Mobile Web” report from Opera Software, the producer of Opera browser and it’s highly popular mobile clone: Opera Mini, contains a special section on Armenia – with some very impressive statistics (see below).

Read the rest of this entry »