Author: Set Galoustyan

I fell in love with Mexico from the back of my now-husband’s motorcycle. In our early years, we’d spend weeks on end driving up and down the Pacific coastline around Puerto Vallarta, exploring its many secret beaches, sleepy fishing villages, and quiet coves. My first brush with the Costalegre happened in 2017, on my 30th birthday, when we wobbled on two wheels down an unpaved, sandy road, emerging at one of the largest bays I had ever seen — a gentle arcing curve of sand backed by towering mountains, and not a single hotel or building in sight. It was the closest thing…

The shocking twists and turns from The White Lotus may have faded from memory slightly as new shows have become the latest water cooler moment (looking at you, The Last of Us) but that doesn’t mean the series about pretty awful rich people isn’t still making waves. As Jennifer Coolidge continues to soak up award after award for her portrayal of “derpy” Tanya, Airbnb is keeping the interest going with the offer to stay at one of the amazing villas featured in season two of the Sicilian-set dramedy. Villa Tasca has been listed on the home-sharing site and those familiar with the show will recognise…

The Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia, Zhanna Andreasyan, received a delegation led by Berenice Juerez Navarrete, Chair of the Mexico-Armenia Friendship Group of the Chamber of Deputies (parliament) of Mexico, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports informs Armenian News-NEWS.am. The parties discussed the importance of promoting cooperation in education, science, culture and sports, and exchanging experience in various directions. Berenice Juerez Navarrete emphasized that 2023 marks the 31st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Mexico, and therefore the development of bilateral cooperation, especially in culture and education, is of particular…

With Nagorno-Karabakh under a virtual blockade, the fate of the territory’s airport has again entered the agenda of its ethnic Armenian residents. The Lachin Corridor, the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and the rest of the world, has been nearly fully closed since December 12 when Azerbaijani government-sponsored protesters shut it down. With the protesters exercising effective control over the road, some Armenians and their backers are looking to the sky as a means of skirting the blockade. Karabakh’s de facto parliament issued a statement on January 5 calling on the presidents of the United States, France, and Russia…

“People are on the brink of starvation. In other countries they dance, children have some expectations from Santa Claus, while our children are starving,” David Babayan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized NKR, wrote on his Facebook page. He considers the blockade of the Lachin corridor “a challenge to the civilized world.” According to Babayan, in order to prevent a humanitarian crisis international organizations should impose sanctions on Azerbaijan. The Lachin corridor, the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, has been closed for more than three weeks. There has been no significant outcome of negotiations between the sides. It…

The fugitive Russian billionaire of Armenian origin, Ruben Vardanyan, has long gained notoriety in the West. As western media reported for decades, Vardanyan was in fact a hub for laundering and withdrawing the money of Russian oligarchs to the West. Speaking about the criminal schemes of Vardanyan, one cannot fail to mention the investigation published in March 2019. Then the OCCRP (Corruption and Organized Crime Investigation Project) released an investigation into the Troika Dialog offshore company system, through which, according to Russian media, money was secretly transferred to the most powerful people in Russia. From 2006-2013, more than $4.5 billion…

The overwhelming majority of media in France are run by Armenians or people who support Armenia, Editor-in-Chief of the “Lagazetteaz.fr” online newspaper Jean-Michel Brun told Trend. “The main problem is that France, in a certain sense, from the point of view of political ideologies, is “right-wing,” and in France these people act as mediators to present the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as a kind of civilizational war. They say that the Judeo-Christian civilization opposes the Muslim one, but when one realizes that Azerbaijan is a secular country, it all starts to look really silly,” he said. Brun noted that in…