I’ve been entertaining myself too much today not to post some of the photos of the people being photographed at the presidents’ pictures stand. It was put on the Republic Square during the balloon festival today.
One of my friends said that all the festival and balloons were something that the government should have thought of earlier to distract people from all sorts of protests. Another friend, who is a supporter of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, said that the balloons don’t take people high enough. My dear friend of course would never get high enough to start liking our government.
Anyway… bottom-line, we are not yet in the danger of amusing ourselves to death. This is only the beginning.
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Many things happened yesterday. Among those probably the most important was Serzh Sargsyan’s inauguration. For a lot of people though the important was that 40 days have passed since the deaths of 1 March riots.
While people lay flowers at the Myasnikyan monument, close to which the riots began, one could hear Jazz music coming from the Republic Square, where a balloon festival was going to happen later on.
Although I did not try to get a pass to photograph the inauguration ceremony I was told yesterday that even those who were allowed were led to a room where they saw everything on TV.
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Attention towards the Caucasus is focused these days at the Georgian presidential election, which Mikheil Saakashvili has just won.
However, this almost in no way interferes with the heavy snow and Christmas here in Armenia.
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When children sit next to the Snow White (ZyunAnushik) that I photographed, I think they lose the desire to see any Snow White any more. Just a joke, but anyway, I walked around the town today looking for things that represent our New Year’s spirit, and what my mind went looking for were silly things. Which is to say, on these days we finally get to get silly. The New Year’s tree in front of Cascade has a weird design, we may consider it silly or we may not (the last photo). And the crane machines decorated with New Year’s lights are definitely what should be photographed when looking for the silly. Anyway, here are the photos and no more comments.
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