notes and observations on everything Armenia!
notes and observations on everything Armenia!
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A filmmaker makes a journey into her own family’s history to investigate the terrible truth behind her grandmother’s odd tattoos and, in the process, unveils the story of the Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World War.
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On January 15th more than a hundred environmental activists, artists and journalists visited Teghut forest, where a major mining project is underway.
Yerevan’s Central (Closed) Market, a popular tourist attraction and an officially recognized architectural monument, has closed its doors for renovation …
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The Armenian Apostolic church uses the Julian Calendar and celebrates Christmas on January 6th. The Fast of Holy Nativity starts on the …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. This blog was viewed about 210,000 times in …
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZwPqt1CHXY”] There’s a lot more I wanted to write about and discuss this year (e.g. issues of Kajaran mining project, …
This happened yesterday. That’s all I know. Here’s another interesting photo apparently from the same event.
Armenia’s largest mobile operator, VivaCell-MTS, announced today about the commercial launch of its fourth generation 4G/LTE (Long Term Evolution) network.