Armenia’s second President Robert Kocharian is a big fan of safaris. Here he is proudly posing on a killed lion. Years of observing Kocharian have taught me one thing – he never does anything without a purpose. The fact he has posed on a lion means he wanted to let everyone know he is the lion killing kind. Continue reading
A team of Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah’s Ark Ministries International claim they’ve found the remains of Noah’s ark beneath snow and volcanic debris on Turkey’s Mount Ararat.
Raw Video: Purported Site of Noah’s Ark in Turkey (Courtesy Noah’s Ark Ministries International)
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan (L) introduces Armen Shotyan (R), newly appointed Minister of Science and Education, to the Ministry staff
Armenian Ministry of Science and Education has proposed to remove the legal ban and allow restoration of state funded Soviet-era style foreign language schools.
Minister of Science and Education Armen Ashotian has said “the reopening of such schools is a necessity now, because currently the knowledge of a foreign language is neither a whim nor a fashion, but rather a precondition for today’s reality.” Continue reading
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Armenian flag was burnt in Istanbul’s Taksim square on Sunday, a couple of days after the Turkish flag was burnt in Yerevan. It never really bothered me, when Dashnaktstutyun youth burnt Turkish flags during their annual march and vigil before the Genocide anniversary days. The sight of the Armenian flag burnt in Istanbul, on the other hand, was quite disturbing… I know I sound biased, but I can’t help it. Overall, this flag-burning action is plain silly.
On this solemn day of remembrance, we pause to recall that ninety-five years ago one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century began. In that dark moment of history, 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or
marched to their death in the final days of the Ottoman Empire. Continue reading
Armenia is suspending the ratification of the normalization protocols signed with Turkey in October 2009, until a time when Turkey is ready to “reengage in the normalization process,” president Serzh Sargsyan said on Tursday. Continue reading
Traffic police stops a Diaspora Armenian in Yerevan. The classic scenario has an interesting twist – the Diasporan keeps his videocam on, recording the whole incident.
From what I understand of traffic police, both sides make errors. Can you find them?
Some airlines resumed flights over northern Europe today after days of inactivity caused by an ash cloud from an Iceland volcano. Zvartnots International Airport Flight Information screen shows Paris and Berlin directions are still cancelled, even as deputy head of Armenia’s Civil Aviation Agency Aram Marutian claimed only Berlin is closed today.
Google introduced driving directions in 111 more countries last week, including Armenia. It gave me quite logical directions for Yerevan, and even better for the route from Yerevan to Gyumri.
