Yesterday, Thanksgiving in the US, the Hayastan All-Armenia Fund during its 12th annual telethon raised $15.8 million from viewers. Nearly $5.3 million of that total was donated by a Russian Armenian alone. It was a sharp 55 percent decrease from last year–$35 million was raised in 2008. On Wednesday night, the European Telethon raised $1.8 million.
I was guessing [...]
Presidents Serge Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev
Armenian president Serge Sarkisian is set to meet his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev for the sixth time this year in Munich this weekend.
Their last meeting a month ago in Moldova was considered a failure by Aliyev, and the Azeri side claimed that the Armenians were toughening their stance in [...]
I just drove to Aparan, located in the Aragatsotn region nearly at the foot of Mount Aragats, to pay back taxes on land that I owe near there not far from a reservoir. My plot of land has an area of only 1,000 square meters, but naturally, like any citizen would (although I have a [...]
I just read a disconcerting article published by Hetq about people selling their homes in order to pay extraordinarily high prices for under-the-table visas to France. Apparently there is a guy who can obtain visas for people willing to leave Armenia of their own accord in the hopes of finding a better life in Europe. [...]
I’ve been silent lately because there aren’t really any exciting topics to discuss lately, whether in politics, culture or economics.
Sure, there’s always cultural events happening—concerts, plays, ballets and so forth. But I can’t manage to attend them most of the time, so obviously there’s nothing to write about. Jazz guitarist and singer George Benson is [...]
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