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4 April 2012

Armenia: Young Author Faces Military Censorship

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, a 24-year-old former conscript in the Armenian military, has found himself in hot water in the former Soviet republic after penning a literary work detailing life in the country's army.

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22 February 2012

Armenia: Activists #Occupy Yerevan Park

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Development, Environment

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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20 January 2012

Turkey: Post-Murder Trial, Thousands Remember Hrant Dink

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Governance

Thousands have marched in Turkey to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink.

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18 January 2012

Turkey: Hrant Dink Murder Trial Closes

Written by Nigar Hacizade · Human Rights, Law

Five years and 25 hearings later, the trial to convict those responsible for the murder of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, has come to a close.

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2 January 2012

Caucasus: The Year in Review

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture

As popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, opposition forces tried to replicate the Arab Spring in the South Caucasus. However, they failed.

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28 December 2011

Bethlehem: Armenian and Greek Clergy Clash at Christmas

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Religion, International Relations

Armenian and Greek priests have once again clashed, but this time at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, much to the astonishment and amusement of social media users worldwide.

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22 December 2011

Armenia: Activists Demand Controversial Governor's Dismissal

Written by Liana Aghajanian · Freedom of Speech, Development

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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21 December 2011

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Garlic Wars

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Arts & Culture, Food

With tensions high between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a result of a still unresolved territorial dispute, the appearance of Azerbaijani garlic in Armenian supermarkets has made some local media hysterical.

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16 December 2011

Armenia: The British Ambassador's Facebook Diplomacy

Written by Onnik Krikorian · International Relations, Politics

An interactive Question and Answer session on Facebook by the British Ambassador to Armenia highlighted both the potential for social media as a tool for engagement as well as some its deficiencies.

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12 December 2011

Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Refugees, International Relations

Marginalized by society and deprived of a voice by the mainstream media, can new media offer an alternative to refugees and IDPs in the South Caucasus?

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Updates about Armenia

22 April 2012

English

Security, in the Caucasus and beyond…. comments on the 97th anniversary of the massacre and deportation of 1.5 million Armenians from the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Considered an act of genocide by many historians and countries, the blog explains why the events are still very much politically relevant to both Armenia and Turkey today.

• Onnik Krikorian

15 April 2012

English

Unzipped again comments on last week's cancelled festival of Azerbaijani films in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri. The blog concludes that the campaign and demonstration against local peace activist Georgi Vanyan illustrated that the ‘mob rules' and “state structures in Armenia failed to protect constitutional rights and freedom of their citizens.“

• Onnik Krikorian

28 March 2012

Armenian

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

English

Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the passage of legislation in Georgia outlawing discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, age, and political as well as religious views. The blog notes that the inclusion of sexual orientation makes Georgia “clearly the most advanced country in the South Caucasus in terms of legislative provisions on LGBT issues.”

• Onnik Krikorian

Armenian

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

23 March 2012

English

Writing for Ararat Magazine, Global Voices' Caucasus Regional Editor says that not everybody is happy about Armenia's withdrawal from this year's Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

• Pervin Muradli

16 March 2012

English

Writing on Ararat Magazine, Global Voices' Caucasus Regional Editor interviews analyst Richard Giragosian and examines the political situation in Armenia ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for 6 May 2012. Following the disputed 2008 presidential election which left 10 people dead, Giragosian argues that the authorities must learn to govern and not rule the country, warning that failure to do so will lead to an ‘explosive situation.'

• Onnik Krikorian

14 March 2012

English

Global Chaos comments on the launch of a new web site by the Armenian Ministry of Diaspora. Charged with the task of bridging the divide between Armenians in Armenia and communities abroad, the blog explains why the site fails on so many levels.

• Onnik Krikorian

English

Cilicia.com comments on recent news that Armenia has withdrawn from the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, capital of neighboring Azerbaijan. Taking a pro-Armenian line on the matter, the blog says that Azerbaijan had no choice but to allow Armenia to participate, and to provide guarantees that Armenians could visit Azerbaijan for the contest, which it did. The opportunity, Cilicia.com opines, was wasted with Armenia shooting itself in the foot.

• Onnik Krikorian