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Mixed feelings over the National Anthem of Nagorno Karabakh
Stumbling upon a YouTube video of the ‘National Anthem (Himn Artsakhi) of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’, sung by popular Armenian singer Andre was something of a surprise to me. I’m not a big fan of national anthems. Most of them are rather boring pieces of music, with similarly boring lyrics. This one is no exception. Here’s [...]

Armenian media starts speaking Turkish
Two relatively new and, judging from Circle.am statistics, highly popular Armenian online news websites: News.am and Tert.am added Turkish language versions to their content in October. The Turkish language archive of News.am dates back to October 1st, while Tert.am seems to have started Turkish language publications on October 20th. A colleague from Turkish Today’s Zaman newspaper contacted [...]

Yerevan “Hails” International Genocide Affirmation
“Official Yerevan remains firm in its position to welcome efforts by other countries to recognize the Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians as genocide and deems them important not only for Armenia but also for the entire international community, according to the country’s top diplomat,” RFE/RL reports. Official Yerevan has remained silent on the introduction of an Armenian [...]

Armenia: a safe country for foreigners?
“Armenia is a very safe country, Yerevan is a safe place” I usually tell foreign friends and colleagues visiting Armenia and leave them free to explore it as much as they like, they are all grown ups, after all. Latest crime figures released by Armenia’s Police for the first 9 months of this year [...]

The two big-fat-hippo backsides in Yerevan’s zoo
  I’m not a big fan of Yerevan’s zoo – the place stinks quite badly and some animals look really unhappy and dirty. Still, my son, absolutely loves the place and keeps asking to take him there again. The fantastic photo above was made and posted to Facebook by a good friend – Hovhannnes Shoghikyan. The photo [...]