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This morning as I drove past the State Economics Institute on Nalbandyan Street in Yerevan I saw two Red Berets standing on the corner in front of the entrance. Today is back to school day across Armenia and students were flocking in front of their college buildings waiting for class to start while smoking slim [...] September 1st, 2010 | Tags: armenian military, armenian society | Category: Social | Leave a comment
Yesterday I took a trip to Gyumri with two fellow Americans. We first visited the marvelous monastery Marmashen before driving around town and then wandering in the historic district. Although we were only in the area for a few hours, I was fairly impressed with the second largest city of Armenia. Gyumri is in some ways [...] The summer is upon us, which means that things will begin slowing down in Yerevan politically and socially, but not necessarily culturally. There’s always plenty to do for social butterflies in the summer months, plenty of cafes to visit, concerts to attend and distractions to take your attention away from things that really matter. Liberty Square [...] June 21st, 2010 | Tags: armenian political life, armenian society, civil society, nagorno-karabagh conflict | Category: Culture, Politics, Social | Leave a comment
A1 Plus published a follow-up article–this time both in Armenian and English– about the case of Gohar Martirosyan, who tragically committed suicide on June 4 after she discovered she had flunked an impossible university entrance exam testing knowledge of the Armenian language and literature. Below is the full text, with my minor copy edits in brackets. The [...] Last night my wife mentioned that a girl had committed suicide after finding out that she flunked her Armenian language exam, which she needed to pass in order to be accepted into university. I asked her if she could determine the news source, and she found two articles on A1+. I tried to find other [...] June 10th, 2010 | Tags: education in armenia, foreign-language schools | Category: Social | One comment
Ani Gevorgian As I wrote in my previous post, three journalists were arrested on May 31 during the chaos surrounding the crackdown on a peaceful protest that was being staged in Liberty Square. The police claim that Ani Gevorgian, a 22-year-old journalist for the pro-opposition “Haykakan Zhamanak” newspaper, assaulted an officer and was dragged away, judging [...] June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: journalist arrests, protests in yerevan | Category: Politics, Social | Leave a comment
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