Ten Years Ago: March 1, 2008
The town is a large community where residents mainly engage in industry and commerce, as well as in the service sector (government, sciences, cultural). The town serves as a regional administrative and cultural hub. To categorize a community as a town/city ...
"We bow before the fallen. but arm yourselves with patience." These consoling words were offered up by officials from the ArtsakhGas Company to Nina Arustumyan, the widow of Vladimir (Vladik), who was killed in the Karabakh war.
In May 2004, ten years after the end of military operations in Nagorno Karabakh, eleven-year-old Albert Arustamyan had found a small metallic ball near the village of Gishi, and he and his sister Tsovik Arustamyan were playing with it in the outskirts of the village. Neither of them remembered the war - Tsovik was born in 1995 and Albert was just one year old when the war ended.