Raffi Meneshian, a blogger at Life in the Armenian Diaspora, writes about joining Yeraz Art, a nonprofit that assists young Armenian musicians in finding venues to perform internationally and helps fund their education.
Riverbends neighborhood and home was raided by the police. She provides a detailed account of what happened: “One of them stood with the Klashnikov pointed at us, and the other one began opening cabinets and checking behind doors. We were silent. The only sounds came from my aunt, who was praying in a tremulous whisper and little B., who was sucking away at his thumb, eyes wide with fear.”
Costa Rica en el Presente has unofficial election results which are being thrown around as the Supreme Election Tribunal (TSE) continues to hand count ballots. In what Bob Glass calls a “fitting end,” those 7.7 million paper ballots may end up recycled as toilet paper.
Gustav of the Warsaw Stationreports on the meeting between Poland's president Kaczyński and George Bush, during which Bush, among other things, asked Kaczyński for “his advice on Ukraine.” Gustav also writes that president Kaczyński and some political analysts expect Poland's relationship with Russia to improve soon.
Lemuel Kolkava of Deleted by Tomorrow writes about a funny development in the Slovak politics: because of the early election, the party that most wanted it now risks being left without space for campaign ads - “most of the billboards were already rented by private companies in the preparation for their own summer campaigns.”
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...