[This article is better read with sad music. here’s a link if you don’t have any idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTs83Ej5nS8.] Here at Semuchka, we love fake articles. This one isn’t. 😮 A simple idea Semuchka, as a site, has existed since the 44 days war. The initial idea, which came after discussing among friends, was to hit … Read more
SEMUCHKA HQ, NYC — After a (very) long hiatus, the editorial staff at Semuchka agreed it was time to be fair with our readers and reveal a little more of what was going on behind the scenes. It is for the sake of transparency that we finally reveal who is financing us and deciding what … Read more
Seriously, though. The whole staff wishes you a Happy New Year. This article was supposed to come out earlier, but we got a lot of setbacks, some because of us, some not (see below). So we had to postpone it a couple of times. Here it is, with A LOT of changes… Contents: delays, censorship, … Read more
SEMUCHKA SECRET HQ, LIECHTENSTEIN – After having been around for a little more than two months, the staff at Semuchka decided to take a few days off in January, to “think about stuff for 2021”. During a meeting, they decided to continue on the same editorial line as December 2020: annoy the Armenian media who … Read more
A few days ago, we published an article saying that Vladimir Putin, the most immune president of Russia, had interests in his relations with Turkey. Because of many people complaining (3 at most), and mostly because of the private messages above (absolutely real, forging stuff it not our style), we wanted to go over … Read more
No, he never said that. As far as we know. But we owed him, as shown in this montage of a completely fictional conversation. In fact, the purpose of this article is to react to the many twists and turns we got since our last publication. We didn’t expect this, not at all … Out … Read more
YEREVAN, ARMENIA – To everybody’s surprise, the hunger strike against the government ended on the 9th day, after the Catholicos visited the strikers and convinced them “there were other ways to fight”. That’s how the mainstream outlets reported it. But the same evening, Gegham Manukyan, leader of the movement, said there were other reasons. “First, … Read more
Well … it’s been a little over a month since Semuchka opened its doors, and we had a lot of fun so far. 🙂 But let’s be (a little) serious for once! First of all, thank you to all our followers! We cannot thank you enough. We thought our jokes made us laugh only, … Read more
The editorial staff at Semuchka would like to react to the recent feedback on our article about Al Capone calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. We want to stress out to our readers that we do satire. We make parodies. Jokes. It’s not true. We would have thought mentioning the most famous … Read more
Since war has started again between Armenians and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh (or Artsakh), media coverage of the conflict has been quite disappointing. Despite knowing that reporters have a hard time spelling half of the names involved (don’t even mention pronunciation), Armenians still have enough of constantly refreshing their browser to see the same recycled information. … Read more