An Armenian friend of mine living in the U.S. sent me a message asking about a veteran of Karabakh war who was denied an Armenian passport because he hadn't had a birth certificate in his possession. The story had been published in a local Armenian periodical and had made quite a buzz in the East Coast Armenian community. The person asked me to ( Read more... )

Secretary-general of «Reporters Without Borders» sent a letter to the British Secretary of State for Justice condemning the arrest of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. I may be missing something, but looks like this was the first organization of such caliber to make a formal move in relation to Assange’s arrest.

Of course, this could be just a lip-service ( Read more... )

I checked for any moves from Amnesty International on the obviously politically motivated arrest of Julian Assange - the leader of the Wikileaks. Guess what? Nothing. Zero. Null.

While in past Amnesty International did use the information from Wikileaks in cases when it corroborated it's findings on this or that human rights violations, this time ( Read more... )

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Телевидение превращается в блог :)

Кстати, если телеканалы включат возможность СМС комментариев по ходу новостных программ - это будет супер. Много интереснее будет, чем дурацкие СМС-чаты, которые сейчас идут вечерами на молодёжных каналах. Дарю идею, используйте ;)

В ход пошла тяжёлая артиллерия: журнал Time описывает процессы в таких розовых тонах, что кукла Барби на их фоне может показаться олицетворением пессимизма. Стиль и уровень правдинской передовицы начала 80-х годов.

При этом основные тезисы статьи - Турция многое выиграет от открытия границы. Чему я несказанно рад и не сомневаюсь, что так и будет.
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Или всё же деза и прощупывание?

'Armenian TV' is on the way ( Read more... )

This article was published in 1996. Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the president of Armenia back then and Vazgen Manukian was the candidate from opposition. Thanks to pigh for getting this one... A very good reading for those who copy-paste latest articles from Western media, trying to portray LTP as a democracy-bringer for Armenia... No more comments, just ( Read more... )

Mehr News Agency, Iran
Aug 26 2007

IRAN AND ARMENIA TO COLLABORATE ON TV SERIES
TEHRAN, Aug. 26 (MNA) -- During a meeting in Yerevan last week Iran's ( Read more... )

A1+ writes:

KILLED BY BEATING

[03:46 pm] 07 June, 2007

On 5 June the police department in Erebuni received a call that there was a body of a woman in number 201 apartment on Achemyan Street.

The police found the body of a Svetlanna in the mentioned apartment which belonged to Ashot S. born in 1951.

No traces of violence were found on the body. ( Read more... )