A group of young people organized a visit to one of Yerevan’s last remaining old districts – Kond. Continue reading
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Scores of troops, tanks, artillery systems and other military hardware paraded across Stepanakert on May 9 in one of the largest ever displays of Nagorno-Karabakh’s military power.
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Looks like Armenia is more or less content with the outcome of the parliamentary elections that took place on May 6.
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At least 144 people were transferred to Yerevan’s hospitals with burns and injuries after mass explosion of gas-inflated balloons during the pre-election concert and rally held in Yerevan’s main square by President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) late on Friday. Continue reading
Armenia -- President Serzh Sargsyan visits Mashtots park, Yerevan, 01May2012
In what seems to be a carefully choreographed performance ahead of this Sunday’s parliamentary elections, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan ordered the removal of kiosks assembled in a park in central Yerevan. In doing so, Sargsyan ended the 80-day standoff between the municipality and environmental activists. Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Armenia, Environmentalism, Mayor, President of Armenia, Sargsyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Yerevan
I have been following “The Beautified Project” band for several years now and either my musical tastes have evolved, or the band has changed, but I’m growing increasingly more fond of their sound. The song, Kilikia, in their interpretation is just great and so I decided to take the chance and publish some info about them on this blog. Continue reading
Prominent Armenian film director Tigran Khzmalian’s film “The Genocide Photographer” tells about Armin Theophil Wegner, a witness to the Armenian Genocide whose photographs documented one of the greatest crimes against humanity committed in the past century.
While Armenia obsesses over the elections, real and imaginary political games, etc, my good friend Arzuman Harutyunyan, Director at Art Sight Video Studio has produced another one of his brilliant PSAs about stuff that really matters. Continue reading
While it was evident, that the ruling Republican party would get the biggest amount of donations, it is rather surprising to see, that “Zharangutyun” (Heritage) party, which is currently the smallest opposition party in the National Assembly, comes second by the amount of donations received, surpessing even “Bargavach Hayastan” (Prosperous Armenia) party lead by Armenia’s richest tycoon Gagik Tsarukian.
This is one of those cases when numbers talk.
| # | Political party or coalition | Donations in AMD |
| 1 | Prosperous Armenia | 54000000 |
| 2 | Heritage | 72797400 |
| 3 | Armenian National Congress | 4599000 |
| 4 | Democratic Party | 255000 |
| 5 | Communist Party | 1400000 |
| 6 | Republican Party | 77876780 |
| 7 | Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) | 23148000 |
| 8 | United Armenian | 490000 |
| 9 | Rule of Law | 22613400 |
Armenian Army’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) “Kroonk-25″ took part in artillery trainings held on Arpil 12. Continue reading
