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What Democracy Means

What Democracy Means

http://ditord.blogspot.com

This blog explores issues of democracy in Armenia. It explores the preconditions necessary to make a country like Armenia - a truly democratic state? Freedom of Speech? Freedom of Expression? Government accountability? International community or the Civil Society? What drives the change?

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  • The Armenian Observer blog news

    Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 04:39

    Starting from today the Armenian Observer blog will be available on http://ditord.com domain along with its old http://ditord.wordpress.com address. This has been done purely for your convenience so it will be easier to type the address of this blog....

  • Government bill threatens Lake Sevan

    Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 03:40

    On August 21, 2008 the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia adopted a government bill giving green light to increased water release from Lake Sevan. According to the original law 240 million cubic meters of water should have been taken from ...

  • Two Polish journalists denied entry to Armenia in past six days

    Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 11:56 in human rights, armenia, democracy, Freedom of Expression

    Reporters Without Borders has circulated a press release, calling on Armenia to lift bans on two Polish journalists who, according to the media watchdog, have been denied entry into the country in the past six days. The press release reported the cas...

  • Western media at their best.

    Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 09:46 in georgia, democracy, censorship, russia

    The journalist's question about Georgia gets censored on CBS. A reporter makes a comparison between the US reaction to 911 and Russia's reaction to Georgian attacks and the satellite feed drops off in the middle of his question. TV is censored every ...

  • FOX news cuts Ossetian girl blaming Georgia’s President for war

    Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 09:18 in fox, journalism, georgia, truth, russia

    30 seconds - that’s how much time FOX news, the Bush propaganda machine is prepared to allocate to alternative views on Georgia-Russia war. In this video posted on you tube, as soon as the girl and her aunt start saying that Georgia was responsibl...

  • Russia: ideology becomes a mash-up

    Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 08:14 in russia

    Evgeny Morozov, 5 - 08 - 2008Originally published at: Opendemocracy.netSolzhenitsyn's death triggered a battle on the Internet as bloggers rushed to accuse, dismiss him or defend him. The Kremlin has found a powerful propaganda machine for its brand ...

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