AS BAD AS THINGS ARE IN ARMENIA…

Armenians have always had afondness for good jokes despite the difficulties their countryhas found itself in. According to Yerevan’s Russian-languageweekly Ourartou this week, one particularly popular storycirculating there now goes like this. Two Armenian women aretalking. “Is your husband coming back from Russia?” “Not yet.””So, his business is better now?” “No, but what I send him fromhere is still enough for him.”Copyright (c) 1995 — The Jamestown Foundation

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