Nothing is ever simple in the South Caucasus, and no sooner had world leaders hailed a ground-breaking announcement from Armenia and Turkey that might set the scene for the normalization of relations between the two estranged neighbors, than nationalists......more
Onnik Krikorian in Armenia: April 2009 Archives
Blog updates on Tbilisi protests
Following on from an earlier post about the unprecedented use of online tools to cover the protests currently underway in Georgia, there are now some updates on the situation available over at Global Voices Online. True, the use of blogs,......more
Citizen media and the Tbilisi protests
We've heard a lot about the use of social networking sites and services such as Twitter and Facebook by political activists in the past week, but opposition protests in Georgia have also shown that they are valuable tools in the hands of......more
Obama talks Turkey (Updated)
History has the unfortunate habit of repeating itself as Armenians know only too well. This is especially true when it comes to U.S. presidential elections. Without fail, candidates running for the White House promise to recognize the WWI massacre......more
Nagorno Karabakh: Blogs, social networking sites cross ethnic fault lines
In May, Armenia and Azerbaijan will mark the 15th anniversary of the 1994 ceasefire agreement which put the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, a mainly ethnic Armenian-populated autonomous oblast situated within Azerbaijan, on hold. Since then, international......more
Onnik Krikorian in Armenia:
Onnik Krikorian is a freelance photojournalist and writer from the United Kingdom based in Yerevan, Armenia. He is also the...