This was the assurance given by Edward Hovhannisyan, head of the Abovyan Detention Center. "It's just that we have a few repeat offenders or people with long sentences, who approach convicts new to the 'zone' and tell them, 'Sister, we know how things are here and we'll tell you what to do and how to do it,' and then they eat the food given to that new convict," said the Detention Center head, "Those are the cunning ones. But the new convicts...
Borik Mkrtchyan said that in 1992 he and his wife Anya were the only people left in the village of Vank in the Martakert region of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Everyone else had been force to leave their homes, for Yerevan, a hostel, or somewhere else.
The atmosphere today, reminiscent of the inception of the powerful national movement in 1988, prompts me to entitle my address “Time for Plain Speaking and Calling to Account”. These two things are necessary, first of all, in order to review the ten years of Kocharyan’s presidency, and then, to clearly identify the challenges that Armenia faces today.
The residents of the Shirak village of Jrapi wake up every morning and look at the hills before them, where there are unintelligible words written in a foreign language. Jrapi is a border village and the hills are located beyond the border, in Turkey.
Razmik Khosroev, of Assyrian extraction, is a stage actor with the G. Sundukyan National Academic Theatre and the first representative of the Armenian Theatre to tackle the complex role of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
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