Signposts to Ghostland

This is one of a number of pieceswritten about mytwo trips to Armenia in 2015. Click on the main Armenia pagefor an overview and to read all posts in the series.

If you arrived any time around 2015at Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, Armenia you will have been quickly greeted with what must be one of the most extraordinarymessages on offer in an arrivals terminal anywhere.

This is no ordinary country, however, and no ordinary time in its history.

The message is a poster featuring t...