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Thoughts from the Canadian-Armenian repat in Yerevan, Raffi Elliott, on Armenia’s politics, international affairs, the tech industry, and everything in between.

Notes from the Pink City

Echoes of Deir ez-Zor at Auschwitz

January 29, 2020 Raffi Elliott 14

I’ve actually been to Hell – well, this Hell wasn’t located in the fiery depths of the afterlife, but in the countryside on the outskirts of the baroque Polish city of Krakow.  Accompanying me on […]

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Overlooked: The Armenian Greta Thunberg who Spent Six Days in Jail

January 8, 2020 Raffi Elliott 1

Just days before Christmas, a Russian court sentenced a young climate activist to six days in jail for participating in a climate change demonstration in Moscow. Supporters of the 25-year-old violinist Arshak Makichyan claim that […]

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Is Armenia’s proposed wiretapping bill unconstitutional?

December 11, 2019 Raffi Elliott 0

If passed, an amendment to Armenia’s current law on intelligence-gathering operations would give police the authority to wiretap telephone conversations of private citizens independently from the National Security Service (NSS). Such a legislative amendment would […]

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HDIF aims to turn Armenia into fair trade crocheting nation

December 4, 2019 Raffi Elliott 0

With Christmas only three weeks away, crocheted gifts from Armenia are flying off the shelves from Yerevan to Los Angeles. Two tags stick out from many of these hand-knitted gloves with Armenian carpet motifs or […]

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The Problem with Taxpayer-Funded Public Art

November 20, 2019 Raffi Elliott 0

At the height of the Second World War, the British government tackled the unenviable task of reorienting the besieged island-nation’s economic productivity towards the war effort. A well-known anecdote recounts how a member of Prime […]

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Tsap Tsapik hopes to reinvent the way we teach music to children

November 7, 2019 Raffi Elliott 1

Sevana Tchakerian may be a household name among contemporary Armenian music connoisseurs as the singer and accordion player for the trad band Collectif Medz Bazar, which has toured in over 20 countries so far. But […]

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Armenia’s Proposed Data Collection Bill Threatens Privacy Rights

October 30, 2019 Raffi Elliott 0

Last week, the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC)—Armenia’s equivalent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—circulated an early draft of a bill which would empower internet service providers (ISPs) to engage in bulk collection and storage […]

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Is Armenia ready for the tourism boom?

October 16, 2019 Raffi Elliott 8

Well, the secret is out—2020 looks like it’s going to be a very busy year for the Armenian tourism industry. This week’s news that the Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair will start flights to Yerevan follows […]

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Yezidi Temple Opening in Armenian Town a Symbol of Inclusion, Cultural Preservation

October 2, 2019 Raffi Elliott 0

While the small community of Aknalich, just outside of Medzamor, may look like any average-sized town in Armenia, the newly-constructed conical structure that dominates its skyline exposes a certain distinctive quality. Indeed, the large dome […]

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Kim Kardashian will fit right in at WCIT 2019

September 11, 2019 Raffi Elliott 4

Kim Kardashan broke the Internet again! Well, the Armenian Internet anyway. When the organizing team of the World Congress on Information Technology, of which I am a member, broke the news that Armenia’s prodigal daughter […]

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