The Armenian Observer Blognotes and observations of democracy, politics, economy and sport related news about Armenia and ArmeniansThe Grapes Blessing day at the Armenian Church- August 18, 2008 Sunday, August 17 was marked by the Armenian Apostolic Church as the &8220;Grapes Blessing&8221; day. After the Sunday Mass the priest dressed in gold-embroidered robes blessed the table filled with various sorts of of white and red grapes and invited the believers to share the wonderful fruit of the Armenian valleys with the servants of ...http://ditord.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/the-grapes-blessing-day-at-the-armenian-church-2/ Round 13: Aronian wins 2nd FIDE Grand Prix in style- August 16, 2008 In what can be considered an excellent last round, Levon Aronian became the glorious winner of the 2nd FIDE Grand Prix Tournament in Sochi, Russia. And he did it in style, defeating Alexander Grischuk in a fine positional game. In a crazy game Radjabov beat Karjakin to finish clear second, followed by Wang Yue and ...http://ditord.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/round-13-aronian-wins-2nd-fide-grand-prix-in-style/ FOX news cuts Ossetian girl blaming Georgias President for war- August 16, 2008 30 seconds - that&8217;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 responsible for the attack on their town, the Fox News presenter cuts her ...http://ditord.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/fox-news-cuts-ossetian-girl-blaming-georgias-presid... Olympics: Armenian wins gold for Ukraine, national team settles for 5 bronze- August 15, 2008 With 5 bronze medals collected at the Beijing 2008 Olympic games Armenia is ranked 15th along with Czech, Romania, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Kazakhstan teams as of Saturday, August 16th, 2008. Although the hopes and demands from the Armenian team were much higher initially, this is not a bad company to be in. It is of course ...http://ditord.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/olympics-armenian-wins-gold-for-ukraine-national-te... |