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Three and a half years later... Any news on this?

Barevner bolorin I believe there is no need to make another web site about famous Armenians, and there's no need to make another լացակումաց web site about genocide, etc. There are number of projects, which anyone who wants to help can join as a volunteer (e.g. armenica.org, Raffi's armeniapedia.org, artsakhwebcombat.am/forum/ - the latter is specifically created to provide info. support for for those of you involved in the information warfare over the Internet, etc.) As someone who works on or participated in creation of such projects as armenianhouse.org, sumgait.info, press.karabakh.info, genocide.ru, budapest.sumgait.info I would strongly recommend to join an existing project. The main "gaps" on the information front line that we have, are in the following areas: 1. Constant monitoring of information related to Armenian issues: news, articles, posts at popular blogs. Groong does great work, but all that information must be read, sorted, and if necessary responded (e.g. writing letters to editors when necessary, demanding corrections, even for Armenian web sites which sometimes just copy-paste info from Azerbaijani web sites). This is a 9 to 5 sort of work, which means that it will need a stable financing. 4-5 people working 9 to 5, five days a week would be able to control areas like Karabakh negotiations, Armenian Genocide, Azerbaijani and Turkish propaganda in general, anti-Armenian activities everywhere (on the net). Such a project would require also someone to coordinate the work, prepare and distribute weekly reports, research the trends, etc. 2. While we have some very serious Russian-language resources on Karabakh conflict, there is an explicite shortage of English-language information on that. Anyone knowing some Russian and having good writing skills in English are welcome to join sumgait.info to help to translate some important articles, eye-witness accounts (Baku, Sumgait, Kirovabad, etc.) So TRANSLATORS NEEDED! 3. Lack of professional staff: be that web-designers, web-developers, authors and journalists, but the most important of all: there is lack of experienced projects leaders. Those who are already involved in "internet wars" are usually overexausted and just can't afford starting work on another project. So we need to think about educating younger generations to bring in fresh forces. Turks now have Turkish colleges and universities in most of the post-USSR countries from Belarus to Russia to Central Asia. Just in Kazakhstan 15000 students are studying in Turkish colleges and universities. Their main specialization is IT and languages. 4. We need short and clear F.A.Q.'s, preferably even illustrated or put on video, on subjects ranging from the history of Armenia to Genocide to Artsakh. I am sure there are bunch of other problems but listed above are those that comes to mind most often.

There wasn't much media coverage, actually, that's why we started the site. And probably there are some copyright issues too. Anyway, we are working on adding the English translation of the second Armenian officer's interview to one of the Armenian newspapers (we have an official permission for that).

I don't have neither time nor wish to comment another piece of crap Sue wrote. But I want to comment the photo, because images are always much more powerfull than all the words. The number of people using wood to heat their apartments in winter decreases every year. Yet this year there was even sharper decrease, because natural gas is being installed in more and more Armenian regions constantly. At this moment more then a half of Yerevan and surrounding regions has natural gas supply. I am talking about what I have seen with my own eyes. So most of us have gas heaters now, almost the same I had while living in Vermont This photograph is probably taken 10 years ago, or at some wholesale wood market a which probably still exists somewhere though I personally have never seen anything like that since I moved back to Yerevan 10 months ago.

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Look at your posts, Vigil: and the one after the next: Whose turn is it to stop?

Nope. Want me to take you for an excursion into a genealogy of Melik-Vrtanesyans? On the other hand, my answer is almost as stupid, as your question.

[offtop] Our argument was one of those neverending ones. Yep, I am fine here, thanx I miss NYC pizza though. [/offtop]

Vigil, I do not know any Armenian of German or Polish descent, but Germans who owned farms/land in Armenia are mentioned in some sources of late 19th / early 20th century. Probably those are the Germans that had lived in Russia (there was a huge German colony in Russia before the revolution) then moved to Armenia. This is not true. Eastern Armenia was never a safe place for ANY nationality. Not because the Armenians were tough (actually, when for example molokans were expelled from Russia to Caucasus there weren't much Armenians left in Eastern Armenia as far as I know), but because of endless wars. Do not forget that at some point Armenians too were a minority in Eastern Armenia. Arpa The purpose of your post was to insult me. I expect an apology. Vigil The name of the topic is "Minorities in Armenia" and the Jews are one of those minorities. Moreover as I can assume from your writings you all hardly have any idea of what is going on between Armenians and Jews in Armenia now, and how was the situation e.g. 50 or 60 years ago. However if you prefer to cook in your own juice I have no intention to bother you. Enjoy yourself. Please just mention what I am allowed to say at this forum to avoid any further misunderstanding, because I have much more interesting things to do than to spend my time on stupid "lezvakrivner".

Congratulations.

Vigil Just one example: Pushkin, the most famous Russian poet who changed the Russian literature forever, was 25% black. It is useless, IMHO, to fight mixed marriages and mistreat the kids from mixed families, rather it is much more effective to create appropriate assimilation techniques and follow them. Teutonic Knight Oh, great. I am glad my son can continue playing his favourite gnam-mer-sary-turqeric-azatem game

There is some, but nothing serious. BTW, I remember seeing lots of boshas around when I was a kid, but I do not remember seeing any for the last 10-15 years.

So you want to say that my son, whose grand-grandfather was a Jew is now a Jew? )))

There were some Jewish colonies in Armenia even in the times of Tigran the Great. They all ended up being assimilated. As for the modern days: there is no Jewish immigration into Armenia, but there is Jewish (as well as ARmenian, Greek, Russian) emigration from Armenia. And they have a sinagogue here in Yerevan. There are about 500 ppl who claim they are Jewish, but part of them are Armenians who just want to receive aid from Jewish organizations Want more info on them? PM me

No problem, take your time, Domino. And once again thanks for caring.