Armenicum AIDS Drug Marches Forward

Rememebr Armenicum? There are so many rumors about it that it's hard to know where the truth begins. Basically, it is a supposedly-successful anti-HIV/AIDS treatment that was created in Armenia. You can learn more about it on Armenicum's Web Site.

Armenicum has now been registered in Ukraine and Russia and is pending registration in China.

Recently, Iranian scientists claimed that it was an effective cure against AIDS.

Six years ago, the BBC did an investigative piece on the drug and found that it made things worse, instead. Then again, that was apparently before proper trials were conducted in Armenia.

Source: Yerevan.ru (translated)

Former Communists Want A Red Reunion!

First a claim of record membeship, and now this.

Russian Communists urged Saturday the Communist parties of ex-Soviet states to join their efforts to restore the former Soviet Union.

Communist leaders from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and other ex-Soviet republics gathered Saturday in the Russian capital to discuss the strengthening of future cooperation and the development of a common strategy to re-unite the former members of the now-defunct Soviet Union.

The participants of the meeting issued a statement calling upon all parties on the territory of the former Soviet Union that adhere to Communist ideology to join the fight for the "socialist development of brotherly nations and their unification into a Union State."

"Without a union between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other brotherly republics that used to be members of the Soviet Union, we do not have a future," Zyuganov said.

Communism is always made out to be a bad, evil force, but the way I remember it is much different. Do I want it back? It's hard to answer, but most likely not. There are problems that cannot be solved even today with the tools of a quasi-democracy: how can we expect a failed system to ever do the job?

Source: RIAN