Ara Oshagan lives and works in the United States. He has been taking photographs in Nagorno Karabakh since 1999. This year he visited Karabakh once again.
Two charity soup kitchens in Goris provide more than 250 meals a day to a large percentage of the city's poor and socially vulnerable residents. More than half of those who line up for their one meal a day are families that were forced to flee their homes in Azerbaijan; others are simply impoverished families or elderly people living alone.
Last August Hetq investigated the situation in the Kashatagh region of Karabakh and described for its readers the criminal actions of the head of the regional administration, Hamlet Khachatryan. The actions of his administration and the policy carried out by the government of Nagorno Karabakh have led many settlers to emigrate from this region. Many of these settlers were Armenians who had been forced out of different regions of Azerbaijan.
The 40-year-old Yakov Altounian has no legs. He tries not to complain very much in order not to differ from others. He lost his legs on August 18, 1993.
The National Youth Report prepared by the Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs of the Republic of Armenia has revealed that according to sociological polls conducted in 2005, 77 percent of 16-to-30-year olds expressed the desire to leave the homeland, in other words, to emigrate. Only 21 percent of the young people surveyed wished to continue living in their current place of residence.
In the beginning of September the residents of Alaverdi learned from flyers distributed around town the Armenian Copper Program (ACP), CJSC (the Alaverdi copper-smelting plant) had arranged for a new loan project with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
On August 14, the 12-year-old Mariam Dolukhanian stood by the spring of Azokh village of Hadrut Region for 3 hours. This day differed with nothing from other days spent in Azokh.
There are immigrants from Armenia in Arakyul village of Hadrut region. One of them is Vachagan Mkrtchian. During the war Vachagan has participated in the liberation of Hadrut and Martakert.
Arkady Arzumanian finds it hard to say exactly which generation of the Arzumanyans living in Togh community he actually belongs to.
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