During a May 7th interview, Alvina Zakaryan, the Head of the ROA Police Department’s Passport and Visa Division, commented on the issue regarding granting citizenship to Jirayr Sefilyan, who commanded a special unit that participated in the liberation of Shushi.
An interview with NKR Defense Minister General-Lieutenant Movses Hakobyan
“The decision to fire me from my job was taken by the wife of Tigran Torosyan, the President of the National Assembly, just because I asked that my job responsibilities be clearly stated”, confidently states Antranik Sargsyan, Head Visitation Section at the Department of Protocol at the National Assembly. They removed him from his position on April 7, 2008.
Mikayel Arushanyan, a 2nd degree invalid resulting from his participation in the Artsakh War, has eight children. His entire family has no home to call their own. All their efforts to somehow extricate themselves from the dire straits they’ve been living in for years have proved fruitless.
The present is also a part of history, created as a result of past realities and decisions. In our case however, a mythological thought process dominates. As early as the beginning of the last century the poet Vahan Teryan characterized the Armenian intelligentsia as being ‘priestly’.
They are dying silently. The residents of Ararat are struggling to survive next to a tailings dam.
“When will the kindergarten open?” is the question Yester Khachatryan, a female resident of the village of Voghji in the Shirak Marz, directs to the kindergarten’s founders with more than a hint of reproach in her tone. Yester’s grandchildren used to attend the village kindergarten.
Gevorg Hakobyan is a third year law student at the French University. Not being able to defend his rights within the University itself, Gevorg has dared to raise the issues involved on the outside to the consternation of Grigor Badiryan, the Dean of the Law Faculty, who had lectured Gevorg that such matters should not leave the university confines.