These are some photos from this afternoon’s protest at Mashdots Park in Yerevan. The area was chaotic — on the far end of the park there was a backhoe digging up the sidewalk, making a tremendous amount of noise and polluting the air with exhaust fumes and dust. Today a group of about [...]
The protests at Mashdots Park concluded yesterday after eighty (that’s 80) police officers confronted a small group of demonstrators making them understand that their time’s up. Supposedly three companies/entities/interest groups or whatever you want to call them pledged that they promise to take care of the park during their three-year lease — the government/city hall insists [...]
This is what it has come to — protesters at a round-the-clock sit-in demonstrating against the authorities’ decision to turn one of the last remaining public parks in downtown Yerevan into a marketplace. These were taken only 90 minutes ago by my intrepid wife, Anushik. This is the kind of unity that’s needed [...]
Emigration is the single-most detrimental threat to the Armenian nation today, even more so than governmental corruption. The National Statistics Service insists that the population of Armenia is still 3.2 million, a figure it has maintained since 2001. Meanwhile, behinds closed doors rumors are heard that there are barely 2 million people actually living in [...]
A dense forest in upper Lori (Photo Christian Garbis)
Last night while out for a stroll with my dog I met my friend Haik who lives next door. We were talking about the advantage of having a garage to keep a car away from gasoline thieves. who love to ravage my Niva’s fuel supply.
While we [...]
I just read a poignant photo essay about the maternity drive in Nagorno-Karabagh published by the New York Times called The National Womb.
The NK government is encouraging young families to have babies by giving them incremental sums of money for each additional child they rear. After the sixth child has been born the family is [...]
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