“The eleven-month-long inactivity imposed on the A1+ TV Company, and the television picture that became complete with the removal of A1+, give us reason to believe that there is nothing for us to do in this country”, said the employees of the A1+ TV in a statement addressed to foreign embassies in Armenia in which the journalists requested political asylum.
On September 7, 1981 the government demolished the five-thousand-year-old village of Bardzrashen in the Shirak Marz. They destroyed the village, arguing that there was insufficient water, in order to seize the land and to make neighboring Maralik the regional center.