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Armenia: Fears After Nationalist Firebombers Released on Bail

Following the firebombing of of an 'alternative' and gay-friendly bar in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, LGBT and other civil society activists are concerned by the rise of nationalism and hate-speech in the country.

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Video Highlights: Identity, Refugees, Conflict and Open Technology

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from East Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, Central Asia - Caucasus and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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Syria: World Cities Rally Against and For Bashar

Armenia: Uproar Over Head of Church's Remarks 21 July 2011
Armenia: Animal Activists Demand End to Stray Dog Killings 28 June 2011
Azerbaijan: Bloggers remember Hrant Dink four years on 21 January 2011
Armenia: Domestic violence claims a life 11 October 2010
Armenia: Army forced to act after hazing video circulates online 24 September 2010

Latest stories about Armenian

9 May 2012

Armenia: Bar Targeted By Suspected Nationalists In Arson Attack

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

At around 5.30am on 8 May, a bar in Yerevan found itself the target of an arson attack. Popular among alternative types and widely known for its gay-friendly policy, it is believed that nationalists were responsible for the attack on D.I.Y.

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2 May 2012

Armenia: Backhanded Victory for Environmental Activists

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Just days before Armenia's crucial parliamentary elections, environmental activists have scored yet another victory in their campaign to save one of the last remaining green spaces in the country's capital, Yerevan.

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12 April 2012

Armenia: Nationalist Threats Against Local Activist

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Just weeks after one example of censorship in Armenia comes another with local peace activist Georgi Vanyan receiving abuse and death threats from nationalists opposed to screening Azerbaijani films in the country.

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6 April 2012

Armenia: Straight to the village

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Western Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

With a GDP per capita estimated at just $5,400 in 2011, Armenia is one of the poorest countries in the former Soviet Union. The situation is particularly noticeable in the villages of the landlocked country, but one foreign diplomat hopes to change all that.

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22 February 2012

Armenia: Activists #Occupy Yerevan Park

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Green spaces in Armenia continue to dwindle at an alarming rate, but a small yet dedicated group of environmental activists has also grown. Now, in order to prevent further damage, they are attempting to occupy a Yerevan park.

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22 December 2011

Armenia: Activists Demand Controversial Governor's Dismissal

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Surik Khachatryan, the governor of Armenia's southern Syunik province, has been making headlines in the last month for all the wrong reasons. No stranger to controversy, activists are now demanding his dismissal.

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9 January 2011

Christmas in Armenia and Georgia… and on Twitter

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

While Christmas was observed in the West on 25 December, other countries instead celebrated it earlier this week. In Armenia, however, it even became a trending topic on Twitter .

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13 September 2010

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Backseat musical musings… and ethnic conflict

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

With the broadcast media heavily controlled in both Armenia and Azerbaijan there are few avenues left for independent journalists. Bloggers in both countries, however, react to a video posted online.

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30 August 2010

Armenia-Azerbaijan: More dialogue through film

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

With national television in Armenia and Azerbaijan controlled by the authorities or government-linked individuals, there is little opportunity for independent reporting. Now more objective and human interest stories can be found on the Internet.

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16 August 2010

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Dialogue through film

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

The free flow of information between Armenia and Azerbaijan since independence is obviously problematic given the still unresolved conflict over Nagorno Karabakh, but can new media move in to fill the gap?

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Updates about Armenian

14 May 2012

Armenia

During the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Azeris and Armenians were displaced. With hundreds of settlements also razed, and thousands of monuments destroyed, Conflict Voices looks at the issue of cemeteries, some of which were destroyed, but also preserved during the war as well as in the 18 years since the 1994 ceasefire.

• Onnik Krikorian

11 May 2012

Armenia

Unzipped: Gay Armenia posts the text of a statement by a group of NGOs including the Helsinki Citizens Assembly in Vanadzor, Women's Resource Center, and Pink Armenia, among others, condemning the 8 May arson attack on D.I.Y., a gay-friendly bar in Yerevan. The blog also reports that two members of a Neo-Nazi group, Dark Ravens Armenia, have been arrested [EN/AM].

• Onnik Krikorian

28 March 2012

Armenia

Ambassador Heffern's Video Blog's comments on the upcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia. Posted on the U.S. Embassy's YouTube Channel, the American diplomat stresses the need for free and fair elections, details some of the changes introduced in the electoral code, and urges the government, opposition and civil society to ensure the proper conduct of the May vote.

• Onnik Krikorian

27 March 2012

Armenia

Georgia was the first country in the South Caucasus to deploy a bespoke crowd-sourcing and crisis mapping platform for its local elections in May 2010, but Armenia will be the first to use Ushahidi to monitor the conduct of national elections in the form of the upcoming May 2012 parliamentary vote. The site, iDitord (iObserver), uses the #iditord hashtag on Twitter.

• Onnik Krikorian

6 March 2012

Armenia

Unzipped comments on a call by Armenian singers to boycott this year's annual Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. Armenia and Azerbaijan remain deadlocked in a conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh and the call to boycott was ostensibly made in protest at the killing of an Armenian serviceman reportedly by an Azerbaijani sniper. However, the blog notes, not only was the statement written and published before any singers signed up to it, but it eventually became clear that the soldier in question was actually killed by one of his own comrades. The blog calls the fiasco “one of the most spectacular yet tragic PR disasters” made by Armenian Public TV apparently in order to justify a boycott of the international music competition. It also wonders whether those singers that did eventually sign will now be so outspoken as to decry hazing and deaths in the military at home.

• Onnik Krikorian

18 February 2012

Armenia

Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on homophobic comments left on the Facebook page of the new Mayor of Yerevan, Taron Margaryan, in response to recent environmental protests in the city. Noting that the discriminatory remarks were made by municipal employees, including the person responsible for public relations, the blog says that such comments are unacceptable and those responsible should be dismissed from their positions.

• Onnik Krikorian

1 July 2011

Armenia

Global Chaos examines the rabiz genre of Armenian music and questions the role it plays in public diplomacy especially in reaching out to the country's large and influential Diaspora.

• Onnik Krikorian

19 January 2011

Armenia

The Önər Blog [AZ] remembers Hrant Dink, the slain Turkish-Armenian journalist, editor and human rights activist who was murdered in Istanbul four years ago today. The post is also available in Armenian. 1+1=3 [AZ], another Azerbaijani blog, also posts an entry in memory of a figure who stood for reconciliation and friendship between nations.

• Onnik Krikorian

13 September 2010

Armenia

Having already visited Georgia, Expedition 206 arrived in Armenia. The initiative, sponsored by Coca-Cola, will see three bloggers visit 206 countries in 365 days. iReport [AM] posts photographs as well as an account of the travelers meeting with 20 local bloggers and says that they will travel to Azerbaijan tomorrow. Kiki's Blog [RU] also posts a brief entry about Expedition 206's 257th day on the road.

• Onnik Krikorian

28 August 2010

Ukraine

Ukraine's national anthem performed in 14 languages (Ukrainian, Greek, Tatar, Gagauz, Polish, Romanian, Georgian, Yiddish, Romani, Russian, Hungarian, Belarusian, Armenian, Azerbaijani) - at Ukrainiana.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Comments on "Armenian"

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