Zaruhi Postanjyan: Woman of The Year, "Fearless In Face Of Authority"

"I received flowers today"... ("Այսոր ես ծաղիկներ ստացա"...)
*via Women's Resource Centre Youtube channel:from the candle lighting ceremony on November 25 to end violence against women. Elvira Meliksetyan from the Women's Resource Center is reading a poem [in Armenian] on domestic violence by an unknown author. 

WTF?! - ‘Hayastanci: Anti-Russia’
After reading this IWPR report and glancing at this so called group’s so called website, my only reaction was - WTF?! They look like a group of hackers playing with others’ nerves, hoping for publicity and having fun. Mentally disturbed people with sick agenda. A burst of anti-Russian [Unzipped: not only anti-Russian] emails and text messages, supposedly sent from an Armenian activist group [Unzipped: I do not think it’s an ‘Armenian activist group’], has left Armenians baffled as to who’s behind it and what their motives are.The emails and text messages originate from an organisation c

Armenia: Scandal of the Day - ‘party’ in prison - Picture of the Day
When I first looked at this picture, it never crossed my mind - until I read the accompanying text - that I am looking at prison here...Armenia -- Artyom Khachatrian (R), editor of the pro-government ''Azatamtutyun'' daily, pictured with three men serving life sentences for politically motivated murders in Yerevan's Nubarashen prison on October 5, 2009. Photo courtesy of ''Ha

Armenia: violence against women (posters, part 1)
For part 2 - see Unzipped: Gay ArmeniaLook at these posters. Difficult, I know. Chilling, I know. ...But do not turn away. Let’s face up these real life stories of violence against women still happening in our society.These posters will be translated into Armenian, and used throughout the country as part of the campaign by Women’s Resource Centre to stop violence against women.On November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence agai

Ghost Forest, Trafalgar square, London
Pretty surreal view in London's Trafalgar square this week (ends Sunday 22 November).This is a project by Angela Palmer - Ghost Forest Art Project - "to raise public awareness of the connections between deforestation and climate change. It involves taking a series of 10 rainforest tree stumps, most with their buttress roots still attached, from a regulated, commercially logged tropical rainforest in Ghana."The tree stumps - the installation of “ghost forest” - will then move to Copenhagen (7-18 December 2009) to coincide with the UN Cop15 Climate Change Conference in December.