Life around me (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Dear nature lovers, A group of young environmentalist, who are worried about the ecological situation of Yerevan, wants to promote an ecologically clean transportation mean that is new for Armenia – Riksha. Riksha, that cyclist Samvel Hovhannisyan has made, is very popular in foreign countries, thus can have its positive impact on the ecological situation of [...]
Blogian (Free subscription) | yesterday
At a difficult time when thousands of people are evacuating Georgia for Armenia, one person is doing the exact opposite. Yerevan-based British photojournalist and fellow blogger Onnik Krikorian is in Georgia covering the conflict with Russia. Writing about a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza and Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, Onnik reports an [...]
A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
We’re back after a happily uneventful, if hot and a bit long, drive from Yerevan. Went past one of the air bases that was bombed, and saw what looked like a burned field, but otherwise no damage visible from the public road. The city itself is more difficult to judge, and I’ve been too preoccupied with [...]
Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
"Will Gül pay a visit to Armenia? Monday, August 18, 2008 Murat Yetkin Will President Abdullah Gül accept Armenian President Serge Sarkisian's invitation to watch together Turkey-Armenia football game that would take place in Yerevan on Sept. 6? " More: Will Gül pay a visit to Armenia? - Turkish Daily News Aug 18, 2008
Life in the Armenian Diaspora (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
www.caucasianchallenge.com A road trip in an old school Russian car from Budapest to Yerevan? This should be fun!!
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's proporsal of a Project for Stability and Cooperation in the Caucasus is a blind shot. It is an initiative easy to criticize for being an empty shell or destined to remain as merely words when one looks to its foundations. There might be some truth in these criticisms too, but I think these do not diminish the importance of Ankara's offer. I do not count the hasty...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Yerevan, Armenia What a journey! Overnight flight from Moscow to Yerevan with zero hours of sleep.
World (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)--Armenian lawmakers openly questioned on Friday the official justification for the forcible dispersal of opposition protesters camped in Yerevan's Liberty Square last February as it emerged that there were no fingerprints on weapons which the Armenian police claim to have found there.
Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
"Armenia lifts Turkish visas for football match Saturday, August 16, 2008 While it is still unclear whether Turkish President Abdullah Gül will accept his Armenian counterpart's invitation to watch a football game together in Yerevan, Armenia has decided on Thursday to unilaterally lift visa requirements for Turkish citizens for the week of the game." More: Armenia lifts Turkish visas for football...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
EIGHT Irish passport-holders are nervously waiting in a hotel in the Armenian capital of Yerevan before deciding whether to return to Georgia.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
A correspondent for a leading opposition newspaper in Armenia was hospitalized this week after being attacked and beaten. Lusine Barseghian of the popular daily “Haykakan Zhamanak” says she was kicked and punched by unknown men as she left her parents’ apartment block in the capital, Yerevan, on August 11. “It was so unexpected,” Barseghian told RFE/RL’s [...]
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Language Log -- David Brooks, Social Psychologist In the context of fact-checking the NyT's David Brooks and finding all of his facts to be exactly backwards, Mark Liberman shares this great joke from the old Soviet days. The relation between Brooks' column and the facts inspired me to model my discussion after the Radio Yerevan jokes that arose in the Soviet Union as a way to mock the pathetically...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
The 1990 burial ceremony of Sergei Parajanov, the world famous Armenian director, was held in Yerevan, Armenia's capital city, and became the stage for an interesting incident. The Russian
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
My The Caucasusian Knot comments on news that Georgian students protested outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia… and have apparently been asked to leave the country.
A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Q: Hello Radio Yerevan, was it a good idea to leave Tbilisi on Sunday? A: In principle, yes. Though it would be better if one of the vehicles in the caravan does not break down after the lunch break in northern Armenia. Q: Dzien dobry Radio Yerevan, is it a good idea to have local talent repair [...]
