The following news item caught my eye...

The draft submitted to the Council of Europe by the Georgian authorities in March 2001 concerns the population deported from the South of Georgia (the region of Meskheti) in 1944 and still waiting the right to be repatriated. (By the date, the total number of those deported and their descendants, scattered all over the former Soviet republics in more than 5,000 populated areas, is c. 300,000; it is the only "punished people" of the Soviet Union that is still denied the right to repatriation.) In 1999, the Georgian authorities had committed themselves before the CoE to create a legislative framework for their repatriation ("including the right to Georgian citizenship"), by April 2001. (The commitment was not fulfilled in time.)

When is it the Armenian's turn to get repatriation rights to Western Armenia?

Anyways, the remond (remodeling) is coming along great! The tiled areas look great, the new windows look great, the front door should come tomorrow (postponed two days) and the outdoor windows are in as well... You can really start to see the finished product here and there. The outdoor windows actually have (insert drumroll) screens!!! That is such a rarity in Armenia, that I have forgotten what it is like to be indoors without it either being stuffy, or there being flies and mosquitoes circling the room. For some reason, they just never ever had screens in the old days, and even most of the new windows installed do not have screens either.