http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:44:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A day before the 24th of April, the day of mourning the victims of the Genocide, Armenians marched towards the memorial Tsitsernakaberd. The march with torches has become a tradition. I don't remember whether it was also done last year, but the public burning of the Turkish flag was something ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/04/25/93yearssincegenocide/ 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 ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/04/10/presidents/ 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 ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/04/10/40-days-since-riots-serzh-sargsyans-inauguration-and-the-blue-sky-festival/ I've always been interested in life in theatre. Backstage, clothes and props are pretty mysterious to many people. Today, a day after the Day of Theatre, I finally got the chance to get backstage during a performance at the Mher Mkrtchyan Theatre. The cast was playing The Little Prince, a ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/03/28/a-day-in-a-theatre/ First day after the State of Emergency, and as it was expected, lots of people crowded the central streets of Yerevan. The silent protest with people standing in a line did not really happen, but you could see some people line up at different spots of streets. Many of the ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/03/22/21march/ The State of Emergency continues, and right on Freedom Square Astral Club continues its parties. It seemed strange to me in the beginning, but the organizer of the Rock on Thursday parties Narek Bakhtamyan told me things for him continued just the same as before. Also, this week a new ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/03/14/state-of-emergency-makes-no-difference-for-some/ http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/03/02/morning-after-1-march-riots-in-yerevan/ The women stepped out yesterday during Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s rally to express their discontent about Haylur of the Public TV. They marched towards the Haylur premises chanting “Levon, Levon!”. As I came home in the evening Haylur did show Ter-Petrosyan’s rally but called the Freedom Square a “Theatrical Square” and showed only ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/02/24/women-march-for-ter-petrosyan/ Things are really getting pretty strange around Levon Ter-Petrosyan, what with deputy Prosecutor-General Gagik Jhangiryan, Head of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovhannisyan and several other officials joining him. The sit-in continued today, and I will hopefully photograph it in the morning and post. They say that probably it will go ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/02/23/ltprally/ According to the Central Electoral Commission, Serzh Sargsyan has won the presidential election with 52 per cent. Levon Ter-Petrosyan was the second. The rally organized by Ter-Petrosyan and the opposition leaders supporting him gathered a huge crowd once again, the number being around 30,000 if not more. Levon Ter-Petrosyan found ... http://blogs.tol.org/armpatch/2008/02/20/oppositionrally/