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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?
Recent Posts
The Armenian Observer blog news
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
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
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.
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
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
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 ...
