"I blame my parents for bringing me into this awful
world. I think in the first place they are guilty and
then Chekists (former KGB member)," says 80-year-old
Antonina Mahari wrapped in several coats. Siberia comes
to her Yerevan apartment with the cold: at this moment
its zero degrees Celsius in the apartment. Sometimes
it changes to minus 1 or plus 1.
Coming from a country where political campaigning never
stops, it struck me as odd (and fairly refreshing) that
in Armenia the season of propagandizing lasts less than
a month.
Home-made Music: Jazz player finds
his place in Yerevan
By Viorica Vladica
ArmeniaNow Correspondent
After months of reading "Anna Karenina",
friends now see him with Tolstoy's "Walk in the
Light and Twenty Three Tales". People stop him
in the street and find it easy to start a conversation.
"Get me an American husband", shouts a large
woman while seeing him buying potatoes at the market
on Komitas.
When the National Assembly approved the 2003 State Budget
on December 26 2002, it allocated spending 334 billion
drams (about $570 million). Of that amount, about 30
percent is expected to come in form of credits and transfers
from other countries.
Small and fragile snowflakes quietly fall from the sky
to weave a huge white blanket over the mountains of
Tsaghkadzor and the small town. It seems the snow leaves
the naked trees breathless while turning nature into
a winter paradise.
In the second week of campaigning, crowds turned out to cheer
President Robert Kocharyan. And a crowd turned riotous at
a rally for Aram Karapetyan, leaving MP Hayk Babukhanyan recovering
from a stabbing.
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