Ruben Hovhannisyan thinks it would be great if Artsakh vets could periodically visit different army bases today and tell new recruits about their war experiences.
Speaking to press bureau chiefs in Ankara on January 25, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey said that Turkey must deal with the ghosts of the past if it wants to become one of the world’s top 10 economies by 2023.
The father of Vahagn Chakhalyan, a Georgian-Armenian activist who was sentenced to 10 years by a Georgian court, has handed over the following letter by his son to Hetq for publication.
Currently, Armenia has 104 such “lifers” in prison, a number which the Helsinki Committee views as disproportionate to the country’s 2.5 million population.
FM Nalbandian - "They say that the adopted bill will hamper the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, but everyone knows that if anyone is hampering those relations today, it is Turkey."
A candlelight memorial will be held tomorrow at Freedom Square to commemorate those who have died in non-combat situations in the army.