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Global Voices Featured Editor: Onnik Krikorian
Onnik Krikorian is a British blogger, journalist, and photographer of Armenian decent who has been living in Yerevan, one of the world’s oldest continuously-inhabited cities, for the past 11 years. He is the Caucasus Editor for Global Voices where he amplifies the latest discussions taking place among bloggers in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. Most recently he has focused his efforts on covering the case against two Azeri bloggers who were sentenced to two and two and a half years in jail. In addition to his own blog, he also writes at Frontline Club and tracks his photojournalism on Lightstalkers and on his website. The full video

Parvana Persiani speaks at first ever World Blogging Forum in Bucharest, Romania
Having just returned from the first-ever World Blogging Forum in Bucharest, Romania, it’s time to reflect on the past few days. For one, the event brought many heavy-weight names from the world of online new and social media in the Palace of the Romanian Parliament. The event was even opened by the country’s president, although there were

Georgia: New Media Forum
Following last year’s Caucasus Bar Camp in Tbilisi, Georgia, came the New Media Forum supported by the Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF) and the Mtatsminda Park. With the Georgian blogosphere arguably the least developed in the region, the two-day event sought to evangelize the potential of new and social media to a specialist audience. Around 200 journalists, students and social activists will gather in the amusement park on mount Mtatsminda to learn more about new media opportunities, bl

An Azeri village in Georgia
Our correspondents from Baku and Yerevan, Arzu Geybullayeva and Onnik Krikorian, visited an ethnic Azeri village in Karajala, eastern Georgia. A photo-reportage. It was around two in the afternoon when Onnik Krikorian, a journalist and blogger based in Yerevan, and I left our hotel and headed south from Telavi (Georgia) to the small, nearby village of Karajala. We chose to visit this particular village because it is one of the many villages in Georgia populated by ethnic Azeri. And while our highest expectations were to take a few pictures and perhaps speak with some of the local folks, we never thought we would be so lucky as to find ourselves, just half an hour after

An unexpected visit to an Azeri wedding
It was a dream come true. Despite knowing each other for several months online, the chances of meeting regional analyst and superstar blogger Arzu Geybullayeva seemed remote at best and unlikely at worst. As Arzu is based in Istanbul, Turkey, and Baku, Azerbaijan, it’s not easy for someone based in Armenia with an Armenian surname to meet even virtual friends from the country’s easterm neighbour in the South Caucasus. Arme