On eggs, chess, cyber granny and more
It’s already been a week, that I made my latest contribution to Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s (aka Wereldomroep) program Wereldnet. Time passed so quickly and I only now realized I hadn’t posted the link to the podcast yet. So here it is. This time I talked about the Genocide Memorial Day on April 24, about cyber [...]
Yerevan’s old and new mayor
This morning I held my regular talk for Radio Netherlands Worldwide radio-station (Wereldomroep). One of the topics I discussed was the recent change of mayors in Yerevan and changes new mayor Karen Karapetian pushed through that are not necessarily increasing his popularity with everyone, notably firing district heads, setting up language classes for the townhall’s [...]
The good and the bad in 2010
In the past, I posted links to some of the podcasts of my talks for a radioprogram for Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Since late 2008, I contribute to their program Wereldnet in which I talk about the news in Armenia. This morning was my final contribution for 2010, a brief flashback to the past year. In [...]
Myrthe on the Radio
Since late last year, I have been giving short talks/interviews on national Dutch radio about life in Armenia. I am one of a network of some 150 Dutch people living all over the world who participate in Wereldnet, a daily fifteen minute program (or half an hour on weekends) in which two or three Dutch [...]
