The head of the notoriously corrupt Passport and Visa agency (OVIR) was sacked today in the latest bout of corruption swilling attempts by Tigran Sarksians newly formed cabinet.

Having had dealings with this ridiculous agency myself, to say I’m happy is an understatement. Let’s see what happens, though. I personally have had to pay bribes, be ridiculed, and harassed by this one guy at OVIR, who I Hope next time I visit, will have left, and taken his huge gigantic gut with him….Let’s hope!

I had been wondering why the Armenian state ( public) tv broadcast has been so appalling recently. Programming has taken a huge turn for the worse. Although this season has seen some (poor) attempts at targetting diasporan programming, a language learning programme and history lectures, for example, all of these are very low budget and often painful to view.

It seems viewers in Armenia are getting an even worse deal:

This is an excerpt from tommorows schedule. As you can see its a patchwork of Haylur and imported serials.

The public television had been making gains recently with a number of in house productions in entertainment, soap opera, and feature film. I wonder if this years budget has been mishandled, or whether they spent too much on those fire blowers for Sirusho at Eurovision…so we all have to endure bad tv for a year?

On a serious note though, I have heard rumours that there are big changes planned at h1. Lets hope. Meanwhile, I’m missing that serial…..