Interview with Heikki Talvitie, former EU special representative in the South Caucasus (2003-2006), Finnish former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group (1995-1996)
In recent years, lack of cultivation has rendered 900 hectares of land in the village of Otzun barren. As to why they are not cultivating their own soil, forty of the villagers we interviewed told us, "There's nothing we can do; we're too poor."
Interview with B.K. Sharma, Chief Executive Officer of Ararat Gold Recovery LLC
Grandfather Vardan was born in the village of Bartzruni near Vayk. In 1937 his father Hambartzum Khachatryan was labeled an "enemy of the people" and executed by a firing squad at the Yerevan prison. In 1942, sixteen-year-old Vardan joined the army.
'Let me tell you a story. Someone ate a banana and threw the peel on the ground, I passed by, saw the peel, but did not pick it up, and another passer-by did not notice it, slipped, fell down and broke a leg. Who is to blame? The one who threw it, I who did not pick it up, or the one who did not notice it?'
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