Monthly Archives: April 2007

This new gathering of Sksela was called “OpenSpace”. About 40 young people were citing in a circle in front of the Komitas statue, the favorite location of Sksela events, and were discussing their future plans in the “open space”, for anyone to hear and join. In fact I spotted a lady who had no relation to the action joining in with a suggestion of her own after watching these strange young people sitting on grass for a while. Continue reading →

Via Nazarian, April 30, 2007:

“It is clear to everyone that the illegitimate way of coming to power costs countries and peoples very dearly,” said Kocharian.

I am sure that he knows that he is the number one illegitimate thing in Armenia.

Russia has always been in focus of Armenian bloggers’ attention. On the newly opened E-channel blog Lragrox is reporting, that the “Educated Media” foundation, the legal successor of “Internews” media organization widely recognized among journalists, has been forced to halt its activities. Lragrox approaches the problem from the Armenian point of view:

This is especially dangerous, because the Armenian government usually tries to follow the big brother and repeat its actions. They say – the bad example is especially appealing. Hopefully the Internews Armenia staff will pay their taxes and report their amounts in due time. It sounds like a bad joke, but it is alas the sad truth. Let me know what you think…

“We lost a great figure in modern political history” Nazarian says in his post, JLiving Notes analyzes the Yeltsin times refraining from expressing his attitude, but noting, that the point of view expressed by other bloggers about the fact, that the First President of Russia destroyed the Russian economy in 90′s is a blunt lie, and that the economy was destroyed already in Soviet Times, and says whoever came instead of Yeltsin (Gorbachov, Zyuganov, Yavlinskii, Zhirinovskii) the result would have probably been the same. “The man whom I owe my freedom has passed away”, Dilanyan comments in his LJ expressing his gratitude to the great man – Boris Yeltsin.

Photo newt1_obit_yeltsin from CNN.com, originally uploaded by nazarian.