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Yerevan Vendors Unite to Protest Ban

Yesterday while driving past Yerevan City Hall my wife and I couldn’t help but notice a couple hundred or more people in front of the main entrance.  Some were holding placards reading slogans like “Mayor Keep Away.” We didn’t know what was going on at first until we went online later in the afternoon

Turns out [...]

Oldest Wine Production Equipment Found in Armenia

Armenian wine

BBC News reports that the oldest facilities used to produce wine were found in an Armenian cave. I used  to hear from people that Armenians–or their ancestors–were the first people to make wine but I never took it very seriously, believing the credit was due to the ancient Greeks or Romans.  But evidence [...]

Is Armenia Really Not a Country?

Last night a friend came over and gave me some disturbing information. He had been talking to someone earlier in the day who said that there are only 1.5 million people left in the Republic of Armenia.

Moreover, people are leaving en masse. He said that there was at least one instance of an entire village [...]

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