In the following video, President of the Yerevan-based Architecture Research NGO Samvel Karapetyan argues that emigration is an inseparable part of Armenian history.
The twenty minute film presents the history of the historical city of Jougha and the destruction of its world-known cemetery by the authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan.
January 24 saw the premier of the documentary film "Crime after the Great Crime", exposing the ongoing Turkish state policy of destroying all traces of Armenian culture in Western Armenia.
Karapetyan, who heads the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA), credited this approach of Armenians to the homeland as a deficiency of the public education system in Armenia.
Samvel Karapetyan, who heads the Yerevan branch of the Research on Armenian Architecture NGO, speaks out about the proliferation of labelling on Armenian products that give precedence to Russian and English over Armenian.
Samuel Karapetyan, the oft-outspoken president of the Research on Armenian Architecture NGO, has lambasted Armenians for being out of synch with the natural world of the Armenian Highlands.
In the following video, Samvel Karapetyan, who heads the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture, recounts his first visit to Ani in 2000 and what he and his team experienced when they felt the force of explosions emanating from a touf stone quarry across the Akhourian River in Armenia.
Samvel Karapetyan, a noted specialist in the preservation of Armenian cultural monuments, told reporters that Azerbaijan is destroying everything in the northern Artsakh district of Shahoumyan (now under Baku’s control) that testifies to an Armenian presence on those lands.
Samvel Karapetyan introduced a photo-album dedicated to the 1,050th anniversary of marking Ani as a capital of Armenia at a press conference today.