There is an excellent, concise article on Hetq Online briefing readers about the situation surrounding the threat to the Teghut Forest, located in the northern part of the Tavush region.
As you may know, the forest is scheduled to be felled in a business plan absurdly approved by Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection. Three organizations which [...]
A friend of mine just sent me a hyperlink pointing to a telling photo album on the image sharing web site, Flickr. All the photos there were of the wedding of the famous Armenian pop singer Sirusho to Levon Kocharian, son of former Armenian President Robert Kocharian. Then I did a Google search for “sirusho [...]
Today is Army Day in Armenia. On Monday Jan. 25 President Serge Sarkisian was giving out medals to select veterans in their honor during an apparent played-down ceremony–who picked them out is anyone’s guess.
So government is closed for the day as well as various companies and undoubtedly, NGOs. Remarkably, the media seems to be working, [...]
Hetq Online printed a great story yesterday written by Edik Baghdasaryan about bodyguards being part of the respected elite in Armenia. Often they are getting more attention under the spotlight than the members of parliament they are supposedly protecting. The article is laden with satire, yet brilliantly describes the current socio-political climate in Armenia, which [...]
Seems that Ankara is not happy with last week’s Armenian Constitutional Court decision regarding the protocols, and they’re letting the whole world know it.
Hetq Online reports the following:
An article in Today’s Zaman, entitled “Normalization with Armenia at risk, says PM Erdogan”, states that during yesterday’s phone call between foreign ministers of the two nations, the [...]
Today Nikol Pashinian, editor of the daily newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak and the firebrand spokesman for the opposition movement in Armenia, who went underground after the turbulent events of March 1, 2008 but came out of hiding last summer, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in “organizing mass riots.”
The decision to [...]
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