When you tell a European that you are from Armenia, you often get a clarifying question, “Romania?” The names of Armenia and Romania certainly sound similar. There is also some similarity in the histories of Armenia and Romania: both were under Byzantine and Ottoman rule, both served as battlefields in the Turkish-Russian wars, both were […]
BEING A MINORITY IN ROMANIA: FEATURES OF POLITICS AND LEGISLATION
Romania constitutes one of the little known cases of ethnic coexistence and political cohabitation. Some observers see the relations between the central government and ethnic groups as strained, while other experts look at the relations as a successful case of cohabitation. A country of 19.5 million people, 10.5 % of which is composed of ethnic […]
MY ADVENTURE IN ARMENIA
Well, that’s actually my first time at an institute writing my thesis, I had no clue about the environment I was about to meet and to stay for a while. Once again I was a frightened kid on his first day at school. I must admit that I was expecting meeting some kind of ancient gods […]