Onnik Krikorian in Armenia: March 2009 Archives

Following the recent announcement that the next rally to be staged by the extra-parliamentary opposition will be held just weeks before a crucial municipal election to decide the capital's mayor, it perhaps comes as no surprise that the Armenian National......more

Following on from a previous Frontline Club post on the recent collapse of the Armenian dram, my article on the same is now available on Osservatorio Caucaso. There will be more articles on various topics, including on the controversial subject of......more

Conversation in Yerevan was ablaze this week with talk of an anti-corruption protest that bore all the hall-marks of a coloured revolutionary youth movement at work. On the walls and other structures close to many universities and colleges, the names and......more

Armenia today celebrated International Women’s Day in pretty much the same way it always does. As a patriarchal society, women are expected to dress up and men present them with flowers. Forget talk about women’s rights and equality, although one......more

After undertaking some photographic work for the London-based Children's Charity EveryChild in the Republic of Georgia in 2006, I visited the country's second largest city of Kutaisi early the following year to further document social work and the reintegration of......more

As if two closed borders and an economy based on the oligarchal control of imports of goods mainly paid for by remittances from abroad wasn't enough, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) yesterday devalued the national currency, the Armenian dram,......more

Despite some concern that yesterday's first anniversary of the deadly post-election clashes between opposition supporters and security forces might end in trouble, the day passed peacefully. Although the event to mourn the deaths of 8 civilians and 2 policemen had......more