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Azerbaijan: Violence against Women
After quickly glancing at the Russian-language Day.az online publication, I came across to an overwhelming number of articles dealing with violence again women in Azerbaijan. This week alone, the publication covers a lady killed by her nephew, a man in prison for having killed his wife, a mom beaten to death by her son, and a 21-year-old in court for having raped his 15-year-old sister. And this every in a country of less than 9 million people. Azerbaijan’s neighbor Armenia was cond
20 Nov 2008, 7:51 pm | click here for more
Aronian: "Women cannot play chess"
"I have a lot of blood in my brain" Levon Aronjan explains why chess is war and not something for women Interview by Christian Schwager, Markus Lotter Mr Aronjan, since the beginnings of the game men have dominated chess. Why is that? Women cannot play chess. But that is no explanation. Wasn’t it your sister who taught you chess? That is true, but women are generally much too emotional for chess. If they want to play really well they have to change their character and suppress their natur
20 Nov 2008, 6:45 am | click here for more
Dresden Olympiad r7
Bit swamped yesterday; Garry has a speech today in Munich and a Wall road Journal editorial appearing in both the European and US editions. And my mom-in-law is arriving today. (Hi Beth!) The epic round six podcast (video or mp3 only) is done and will be up at chessclub.com soon. I'll link to it here when it's up. The big guns are slugging it out at last. Armenia beat Azerbaijan in round six thanks to a nice new idea in the Sicilian by Akopian, who beat Mamedyarov. Qg4-h3 is good stuff. N
20 Nov 2008, 6:05 am | click here for more
How do you wrap a goat for Christmas?
It is never a good idea to give an animal as a gift, except in this case. When I saw this catalog, I was skeptical. It’s just another gimmick to make me open it up. Actually I was amazed what was inside. If you could do one tiny thing to help a family living in poverty and this one thing would continue to help future generations, would you do it? This holiday season, rather than buy more toys for kids who already have closets full of toys or chocolates for people like me who don’t need
20 Nov 2008, 4:54 am | click here for more
The Next Time: Huckabee's Book Tour
From GOP Catholics Perhaps the reason for some of the negative headlines about Huckabee's new book, Do The Right Thing, has to do with a simple fact. The GOP leadership knows Huckabee is the biggest threat to insider politicians like Mitt Romney for 2012 and wants to cease him before the nomination literally starts falling Huckabee's way. The leaders of the social conservative movement who helped nominate the closet liberal John McCain by refusing to help one of their possess in Mike Huckabee,
20 Nov 2008, 12:02 pm | click here for more
The Daily Update: Olympics Round 7, NAFI Round 8
The Daily Update: Olympics Round 7, NAFI Round 8 In the biggest match of the Olympics so far, the Armenian team upset the 2700-laden Russians 2.5-1.5 to seize solo first place. It came down to the last two games (the first two to finish had been drawn): Sargissian-Grischuk and Jakovenko-Petrosian. Sargissian sacrificed a piece for pawns and pressure, and made Grischuk suffer a long, long time, while Jakovenko had an extra pawn in a rook ending and was making Petrosian suffer. At the end of the
20 Nov 2008, 11:11 pm | click here for more
cantaloupe - podictionary 896
The cantaloupe melon gets its name from its brush with the pope. Today’s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast It is thought that cantaloupes originally were cultivated in Armenia before being brought and grown in a place close Rome, reputedly in the garden of the pope’s country villa. The place where the pope had this retreat is known as Cantalupo in Sabina and so when first the Italians, then the French and
20 Nov 2008, 11:01 pm | click here for more
Res Artis
click on the image to go to link. Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 200 centers and organisations in 50 countries worldwide that offer to international artists facilities and conditions conducive for making art. Currently members of Res Artis reside in: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gam
20 Nov 2008, 10:49 am | click here for more
If you blinked, you missed it
The Daily Update: Round 6 of the Olympics; Round 7 of the NAFI There are now two leading teams at the Dresden Olympics: Russia and Armenia. Russia defeated England 3-1 in an interesting match, while Armenia defeated the Azerbaijan team 2.5-1.5. They'll play in the next round. First recapping the Russia match: the first two games were drawn, and in the remaining games - Kramnik-Short and Conquest-Jakovenko, the English were suffering. The Kramnik game had a silly finish: in the position afte
19 Nov 2008, 9:11 pm | click here for more
Eurasian Education Union (Uluslararası Avrasya Eğitim Sendikaları Birliği) supports Turkish as common language for Turkic republics
Here's a tiny piece on a Eurasian Education Union (Uluslararası Avrasya Eğitim Sendikaları Birliği, nice of a union of teachers' unions I think) that gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, from the 3rd to the 4th of November. Apparently they criticized Armenia in the gathering because of the part of Azerbaijan Armenia still has below its control, but the more interesting part (to me as a student of languages that is) is that they also supported Turkish as the common language for Turkic republics, namely
19 Nov 2008, 7:40 pm | click here for more
BBC: "Violent nationalism blights Turkey"
BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports (her full report has been shown tonight on BBC's Newsnight programme) Writer Hrant Dink was the first victim, killed last year because some in Turkey could not tolerate what he stood for. To nationalists, he was a traitor. In a country where every citizen is defined as a Turk, Hrant Dink defined himself as ethnic Armenian. That was already subversive to some. But Mr Dink went further. He wrote about the expulsion and killing of hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Ar
19 Nov 2008, 7:01 pm | click here for more
The Resistible Rise of Bashar al-Asad
This is a guest post by Garvan Walshe It was March 14, 2005. One million Lebanese – Sunnis, Christians, more Shia than would admit it now, and Druze too gathered in the largest peaceful anti-government demonstration ever in the Arab world. In proportion to population, it was the largest anywhere, ever. The whole world was watching, and the secret police of Assad Junior, ophthalmologist and dictator, were forced out in a bloodless revolution, known as the ‘independence intifada’. But now t
19 Nov 2008, 6:32 am | click here for more
Dresden Olympiad resumes after day off
Here are the top matchups of the day: Round 6 on 2008/11/19 at 15:00 - Women's Olympiad No. SNo Team Team Pts. MP Res. : Res. MP Pts. Team Team SNo 1 8 HUN Hungary 15½ 9 : 10 16 China CHN 3 2 10 SRB Serbia 12½ 7 : 7 11 Germany 1 GER1 12 3 36 AUT Austria 13½ 8 : 8 15 Russia RUS 1 4
19 Nov 2008, 3:29 am | click here for more
Dresden Olympiad r6
Big guns are matching up big time after the off day and the Bermuda party hangover recovery period. The six teams with 9/10 points meet: Russia-England, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Ukraine-Germany. In the women's event, China with a perfect 10 faces the only team with 9, Hungary. China hasn't lost a game yet despite leaving several of the world's top-rated women at home. England's Dagne Ciuksyte is 5/5 in the women's and Valentin Iotov has 5/5 for Bulgaria. Live games online. 25-minute (!) Round 5 podc
19 Nov 2008, 2:13 am | click here for more
Presentations from Armenian OA workshop
The presentations, in English and Russian, from the Open Access Awareness Raising Workshop in Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia, October 15-16, 2008) are now online.
19 Nov 2008, 1:57 pm | click here for more
Reemergence of Russia as superpower
Reemergence of Russia as superpower 19 11 2008 Reemergence of Russia as superpower Musa Khan Jalalzai Russia’s resurgence as a strategic actor and a new icy war player is widely discussed in the United Kingdom and Asia. Russia Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his presidency made unbelievable economic and military progress. In UK intellectual circle, the resurgence of Russia in the international arena is considered a big issue of the close future. Russia’s new policy direction - and parti
19 Nov 2008, 1:35 pm | click here for more
Armenia: Attack on human rights defender and journalist Edik Baghdasaryan
Armenia: Attack on human rights defender and journalist Edik Baghdasaryan Front Line is deeply concerned following reports received of an attack on human rights defender Edik Baghdasaryan in Yerevan, on 17 November 2008. Edik Baghdasaryan is the chairperson of the Armenian Association of Investigative Journalists, the editor of the Yerevan-based on-line magazine HetqOnline, and an award-winning journalist known for his investigative reporting on Armenian politics, crime and corruption.
19 Nov 2008, 10:18 pm | click here for more
ARMENIA - GANGSHTA RAPS, BEBAY
Introducing Kro, Armenia's finest (possibly only) gangshta rapper. We're still yet to be convinced that this isn't Sacha Baron Cohen's latest character, but we adore the tune. every together now: "I be makin' Gs, like the real OGs overseas. Ahhh-ahh-ahhh-ah-ah-ahhhhhh..."
19 Nov 2008, 10:02 am | click here for more
Kim Kardashian: Human Rights Lobbyist?
Armenian-American celebritiy Kim Kardashian is at it again: now calling on her supporters to vote “yes” in an online poll that asks whether the United States should officially recognize the Armenian Genocide or not. In her possess words: [...] I firmly believe the U.S. should officially recognize the horrific and historical atrocity of the Armenian Genocide, also known as the “Great Calamity.” For those of you who don’t know about it: More than a million Armenian people were marched to their de
18 Nov 2008, 7:21 pm | click here for more
Blog Candy ... Oh so sweet :)
This week you can win this Candy! Just leave a comment and next week I will use the random number generator to pick the winning post :) If you win, you'll need to provide me with a name and address to send to so be sure to check and look if you are the winner.Good Luck!New winner and new sweets every Monday!I don’t notify you if you win. Be sure to check this post next week to look if you have won.The winner must send me their address via email. If I do not hear from the winner by Thursday, they
18 Nov 2008, 5:05 pm | click here for more