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I just wanted to let you all know that, there was this great start-up audiobooks recording studio in Yerevan which is recording classical Armenian literature in audiobook format. So far most of their publications are in Armenian (which is great for those of us willing to improve our language skills) but they will have english versions available soon. check them out here:http://askaudiobooks.am/ They also have a new, and very user-friendly english to eastern-armenian language tutorial, which is great if you're thinking of visiting Armenia and need to quickly brush up on your language in the plane or something. I think they have a 50% sale going on now: http://teach.learnoutloud.com/Browse/Languages/Vocabulary-Building/ArmenianEnglish-Language-Tutorial/47243 Please support an innovative new Armenia-based business!! Raf

Hey Armenians around the world! I just wanted to let you all know that, there was this great start-up audiobooks recording studio in Yerevan which is recording classical Armenian literature in audiobook format. So far most of their publications are in Armenian (which is great for those of us willing to improve our language skills) but they will have english versions available soon. check them out here:http://askaudiobooks.am/ They also have a new, and very user-friendly english to eastern-armenian language tutorial, which is great if you're thinking of visiting Armenia and need to quickly brush up on your language in the plane or something. I think they have a 50% sale going on now: http://teach.learnoutloud.com/Browse/Languages/Vocabulary-Building/ArmenianEnglish-Language-Tutorial/47243 Please support an innovative new Armenian business!!

i think they were confusing with east-turkmenistan. btw..if you have google earth, and you go on etchmiadzin one of the pictures claims its an ancient azeri monument

hamacain em, baic es txan haziv 18 taregan a, soviet miyutiuni heto dznav, aylevs "ovich" chen dnoom ipr hayranoon...baic g'erevi vor mek me moracav aderbaijancineroon assel

it shouldn't be amazing, it should be a positive step towards combating drugs, which, beyond politics, are a threat to everyone. personally, i think in these respects, azerbaijan should at least cooperate with armenia and georgia in forming an anti-drugs task-force in the transcaucasus...but eh...

yes, because azerbaijans weaponry is for defence... defense against its own population...

hopefully i can top that: azerbaijan claims that Armenia is developing nuclear weapons!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of course it never occurred to them that armenia has the only nuclear power plant in the region, and maybe that's why...not to mention the relative proximity of both ankara and baku to yerevan, making the use of nuclear weapons quite pointless lol

but of course here are some funnier ones: http://today.az/news/politics/53992.html and of course this one: http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105357 dude i swear...i stopped watching comedy on tv, i just read this..its hillarious

ok, as long as we are on the subject of armenian prostitutes..when i was working in amsterdam, i tried to prostitute myself to 2 russian girls for 100 euro...but they laughed...and that was the end of my career

i'm not touching this one with a 10 foot pole

YES YES YES YES... look, let me give a quick rundown on armeno/russian relations in the last 200 years:.. throughout the 19th century, the russian empire (as part of a wider great game with great britain, and in the context of the wider european balance of power, which consisted of checking any advance by one power, by all the others..) has been wooing the armenians (in the same way as they wooed balkan slavs) in the ottoman empire, because of our orthodox/christian and european identity, as part of a ploy to secure a foodhold in the "sick man of europe" the ottoman empire. many times over, the russian tzar declared himself the "defender of christianity in the ottoman empire"..and so on... when the russian army entered the caucasus, it fought a 30 year war against north caucasian tribes, and (previously independent) georgia..annexing and abolishing the georgian church. for armenia, russia's presence in the region was somewhat of a relief from the persian empire, as finally a christian/eastern european patron state was here to protect them from the "hordes of islamic asiatics"...this is where i must point out that the armenian church was also annexed to the russian orthodox one..(in the same way, the abkhaz church was forced into the russian orthodox one in 1997) this was part of a wider conflict between the ottomans and russia which lead to at least 5 wars, including the crimean war...and for a short period, russian dominance on north eastern anatolia (till they got all communified and left)..in 1917. throughout the 20th century, under a new name, the blosheviks continued this scheme in a new form, of divide and conquer. in this light, artsax and naxichevan was given to "azerbaijan" (or south tatarstan as i like to clall it)...as well as a portion of southern georgia...kars and ararat were given to turkey, as well as the georgian parts of ardahan and artvin..(this was in the hopes that turkey would join their brothers, the azeris in a larger soviet union...at the same time, of course, the us was funding an anti-communist movement in turkey as well...) in the meantime, all armenian intellectualism was supressed, by either exiling artists, writers, poets and others to siberia..or outright killing them...leaving us with this creative blackhole we live with today.. over a million armenians ended up growing up outside the caucasus (russia/kazakhstan...)...not to mention soviet attempts at russification of our nation: changing the alphabet...the huge number of russian loan words in common usage...russian signs, russian school programmes etc.. this of course was not only happening in armenia, but around the soviet-sphere. the reason armenians today supress this in their collective memory is because we are so poised to believe that russia is a benefactor, and that we can just pretend all the bad stuff didn't happen..while we listen to our dadiks and babiks talking about how great the brejnev STAGNATION was...."kordz kar, dun uneink, uraz eink"...ble ble ble.. ... anyway back to the point the current situation between armenia, azerbaijan and russia in 2009 is EXACTLY the same as in 1993. russia helped azerbaijan till 1993, because it had no interest in armenia, aside from a border with turkey (which , at the time, shevernadze georgia could also secure) azerbaijan on the other hand was traditionally one of the major oil producing regions of the Union, and was thus quite a deal more important to russia..russia only "switched sides" in 1993, when it was evident that Armenia was winning. in the early 90's, experts were already talking about a new great game, this time for caspian oil resources. now that azerbaijan is agreeing to build a new pipeline through russia, which in a way is a symbol of closening ties between the lord in baku and the emperor in moscow...which, though they may have seemed to be shallow (with azerbaijan's "raprochement" towards the USA..s oil companies...) ..never actually were... but ya, as previously mentionned, russia, through several lackeys here in armenia has found many other ways to keep the USSR still functionning without calling it such. some examples: in order to "settle our national debt to russia"...putin took over control of armenia's Mars micro-tech factory, bought up the hrasdan power plant, created "armrusgasprom" bought our half of the gas pipeline to iran (which was conceived as part of armenia's (and georgia's) attempt to break away from russias energy hegemony)...now owns armenia's national railway service, and both our mobile companies. so, for those of us who think we gained independence in 1991, ...i'm affraid it may not be so clear.. and from what i see on the ground here, i honestly fear for the future. the more russia drifts into autocracy, the faster armenia follows. ... anyway point is simple.. after the war in ossetia, aliyev was in baku talking about the "historic business ties between the ancient azeris and russians"...and signing another deal. lavrov, (an armenian) after recognising the independence of the 2 georgian republics, went to baku to assure aliyev that this was not the case for artsax. ... now that the deal has been signed for the new pipeline medvedev issues a statement claiming that aliyevs "speech" about artsax was "correct" ... anyway hopefully now youtube won't be as flooded with "armenia and russia orthodox brothers for life" videos..because medvedev and putin do not worship christ, they worship stalin, lenin and marx wakeup armenians...stop with the "we need the backing of major powers" mentality

this is so cool..finally russia exposed for what it is: nothing more than power/oil hungry medler

as long as we're on the topics, here is an interesting series of articles i just read on the azeri newspaper: it deas with an "armenian solder" who has crossed the border to azerbaijan because he was "being beaten terribly, and could not take it..".. he was captured in quite debatable circumstances by some 14 year old farmer who gave a very vague description of how it all happened: http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105154 http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105154 so... of course this has not been confirmed by either the red cross or the armenian army..(when azeris cross to armenia, the azeri army always makes statements saying they were "kidnapped" at least..) ...and quite frankly the little boy taking an armenian soldier (who somehow managed to get to his farm after crossing the azeri trenches without turning himself in...) is hard to believe... in both articles, they give different regions of his birth: 1 says he's from yerevan and the other says he's from abovyan but of course the funniest part is his name: Karen Norigovich Harutyunyan ..so i've been living in this country for several years now, and i have never heard of such a middle name on an ethnic armenian, "norigovich"??? this is the second time the azeris use such a name...you wold think they could get their cheap propaganda right .. this of course is an attempted response to all the azeri troops who have crossed into armenia...

not exactly. wilsonian armenia was given to the armenians on the basis of right to self determination, not as pitty for being victims of genocide. in other words, wilsonian armenia would have been reality even if the genocide had not happened. the sevres treaty is a territorial agreement, and is unrelated to human rights abuses,,,at least nominally. as for turkish recognition of the genocide. i think its less of an issue of international standing...i mean, lets face it...everyone else already knows about it weather they recognise it or not, it is more to keep its own population inline with the official government policy...that is why they are not recognising it.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=104834 aku – APA. A man attempted to sell baby was arrested in Baku, press service of the Interior Ministry told APA. As a result of operations conducted by the Interior Ministry’s Transport Police Office, resident of Baku previously convicted Ilham Trihude was arrested in the territory of Baku Railway Station when he attempted to sell his friend Zulfiyya Huseynova’s 7-month daughter Konul for 6 400 AZN.

qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils veulent. et c'est ça le problème, les arméniens se préoccupent trop de ce que font les turques...on s'en fout. si on ne les prends pas sérieusement ils ont l'air d'idiots

MASS SUICIDE PREVENTED IN BAKU ACCORDING TO APA.AZ http://en.apa.az/video.php Baku. Hafiz Heydarov –APA. Officers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and police prevented the mass suicide by nearly 30 persons who attempted to jump from seventh floor of a multi-storey building near Teze Bazaar trade center in Baku, APA correspondent reports. They were taken to Nasimi District Police Office and police promised them to investigate their complaints. The protesters are Goychay businessman Chingiz Mayilov’s family members and relatives. They demanded his releasing from jail and stopping police persecutions against them. Nearly 30 persons, including women and children, attempted to commit mass suicide jumping from the seventh floor of a multi-storey building constructed near Teze Bazaar trade center in Baku. Officers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, rescuers, ministry spokesman Tural Museyibov and police arrived at site.

no offense, but this is a bull-shit article

ok, first and foremost, please get the idea of turkey willingly handing back western armenia out of your head. this will never happen. the sooner armenians understand that, the faster we will make more tangible steps. but turkey handing over 1/4 of its landmass to armenia will not be happening in the near future, no matter what legal action, or mutual blockade we can do. the only way i ever see the entirety of western armenia rejoining the RA (hopefully by that time, it will be the KA, kingdom of armenia ) is if somehow World War 3 breaks out and armenia manages to defeat one of the regions most powerful armies..or if the kurds and turks mutually nuke eachother..or what ever.. another myth that must be broken land appropriation =/= genocide recognition. the territory of wilsonian armenia was created AFTER the genocide, and does not go hand in hand with it. (this is something the turks also don't seem to understand)..recognising the genocide does not have anything to do with land reparations. wilsonian armenia is discussed in the sevres and lausanne treaties and does not relate in any way to the previous genocide of the armenians. however, here is a more tangible solution, legal action against turkey which, in turn may result in the turks giving us a channel to the black sea. OR at least, the territory ceded by the USSR of the original armenian SSR to turkey in 1923 (a treaty which armenia didn't sign, and at the time, was not part of the USSR, thus one may argue that this is potentially illegal)..so as far as legal or military alternatives to regaining w. armenia go, this is about it. now on to more serious stuff.. ok, let me explain it in the simplest way possible: alternative 1- f*ck you turkey, you commited genocide, i'm never talking to you again, give me back half of anatolia, recognise your crime or alternative 2- turkey, we are neighbours due to historical irony, this is a fact we must accept, in order to progress in the future, we must cooperate, and to build a strong base for cooperation, we must accept the past. so which one seems like the better choice. here is what i think we have been trying option 1 for the last...95 years...and so far..we havn't recieved an inch of land from them. infact, all we got were more pogroms in istambul in the 50s, and we got hrant dink killed. option 2 works by appealing to turkey's extremely large ego, turkey the wise, turkey the moral..the turks are trying to place that image in the eyes of the civilised world. yet, how can they portray this, when trying to be included as mediators in the georgian and artsax conflicts, when they have so many skeletons in the closet? turkey is a very fragmented society held together through fear, and a false understanding of a national myth created by the blond blue eyed father of the turkish nation, mustafa. ..in other words, its built on a house of cards. turkey is extremely divided between kemalists, the military, socialists, pro-europeans, eurosceptics, liberals, islamic radicals, kurds etc. as you know there is an intellectual society within turkey who is prepared to accept the genocide as fact. this in turn enraged the grey wolfs, and as a result creates controversy, getting scores of younger generations of turks to read about their history and the armenians (a taboo subject till now). -(and i must add, 15 year old armenians from burj hamood or glendale spending their days surfing turkish youtube videos or forums writing 'fuk you' is not helping) people within turkey have been taking these steps, in including genocide rhetoric without using it in order to purposely inflame the turks ex: hrant dink, who openly used the word genocide, and yet always spoke of peace and reconciliation between turks and armenians. and he was killed for it. (another ironic fact, he was absolutely vilified by the dashnak party for his less-than-radical stance on turkish-armenian relations...but after he was murdered they were the first to cry out about the murder of a great armenian hero..LOOLL) but that's the point. hrant dink is a human example of what armenians world wide should be doing: - give the turks a sensible deal. tell them: economics and business should not be mixed with politics. let us cooperate, and in this frame of peaceful diplomacy, we can come to justice for the crimes commited against our people i.e. genocide. (the greeks also have beef with the turks for many reasons, and yet they are trade partners and are both in NATO). so, if turkey refuses this down-to earth proposal, which 95% of chances dictate that they will...then they will look quite bad, and the armenians will seem like those who are considerate and flexible. this in turn will turn world opinion in favour of the armenians and put more pressure on the turks. don't be fooled, the conflict may be 90 years old, but this present engagement is dangerously contemporary, time to come up with new tactics boys. -lastly, a little word on recognition. i agree that turkey should give economic compensation to the RA for the genocide (if short of territorial compensation), like the germans did to israel. realistically, armenia does not have the resources, money or man power to invade and occupy western armenia, and we are still struggling with the small armenia we have left,...so some turkish money would be nice..

well.. in the spirit of gender equality, i think on wedding nights, the family of the bride should kick the new husband in the johnson and see if he pisses blood !!!

et voila de belles nouvelles

this is from an article on the subject: http://analyticon.org/publ/1-1-0-19

we should ask the azeris to finance it lol

not really if anything it has made it more open. turkey has been flat out denying the genocide since 1965 (before then it didn't even have any official position on it, because it was an unspoken thing). if anything, the armenian side trying to ignore turkey till recognition of the genocide is more harmful to the recognition than not; considering we will be waiting a long time for the turks to do so, and this strategy has not yet born fruit so far in the last 50 years we have been implementing it. turkey is a very precarious state. it is probably not a good idea to attack a fascistic, ultranationalist country with an identity crisis, with genocide recognition and so on. all this will do is fuel anti-armenian sentiment by kemalists who are unwilling to accept that their grandpraents could have been massmurderers, and strengthening their resolve that armenians are foreigners, and a "jealous tiny nation..blablabla.." like we hear all the time. essentially, this is a very complex diplomatic game. turkey's attempt at jumpstarting relations with armenia is not simply because it suddenly sees its tiny neighbour with a new eye, but because it is part of turkey's self-assigned new role as the regional big brother. this of course is part of a wider geo-strategic goal of impressing its own big brothers (russia, the US, and the EU). this is partly because of turkish aspirations for EU membership, or at least long-lasting trade relations with the west, azerbaijan, russia and iran. thus, i find that the whole prospect of genocide recognition SHOULD be done in this light of supposed reconciliation. because, one can argue, that how do you wish to reconcile, if you don't admit to the past. this view, in my opinion may make the recognition of genocide a much more tangible goal in turkish-armenian relations than mutual poo-pooing. so if anything, (though i admit that acknowledging the plan to normalise relations was done at a bad time by the armenian government -ap.23rd-) i still think that ultimately, the US's new bolshevik leader comrad obama is the largest threat to recognition, and in effect he was looking for anything to get him out of recognising the genocide.