Tigran Paskevichyan
The Hidden War
[November 20, 2006]
“Children begin to perceive the world through their environment. Children
have a unique ability to get in anywhere, pick anything up and look at it. Children
continue to search and dig in even if they sense danger. They usually lose their
sight, get wounded in the face, arms, and legs. That is, if they survive the
explosion,” said photographer German Avagyan ... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
He Hadn’t Been Sworn
in When He Died; That’s Why We Don’t Pay His Pension
[November 20, 2006]
“I will die in this house this winter, and no one will know it,” said
Zabela Hasanyan, a 66-year-old resident of the village of Hartashen village in
the Hadrut region. Mrs. Zabela had at last encountered a reporter in her village
and she wanted to talk about the injustice she had faced since the death of her
husband ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
Anna Sargsyan
Tigranakert
[November 20, 2006]
In the summer of 2006, Armenian media announced to the entire world that the
ruins of an ancient city built by King Tigran the Great had been discovered in
the Martakert region of Nagorno Karabakh. Archeologist Hamlet Petrosyan said
it was no coincidence that that very location had been chosen for excavation
- history had pointed to it strongly ... [full
story]
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Edik Baghdasaryan
Let Them Serve Safely and Be Careful
[November 13, 2006]
The August heat had dried the grass. The temperature outside was 40 degrees
Celsius, but it was a bit cooler in the dugouts. The enemy posts lay a few hundred
meters ahead. Eighteen and nineteen year old conscripts were serving at the Hadrut
military base near the southern border of Karabakh ... [full
story]
Hasmik Hovhannisyann
Mets Tagher – Khudyakov’s Native Land
[November 13, 2006]
The hooves of horses and donkeys could be heard on the narrow cobblestone
streets. Children with buckets went to the spring to collect water. A donkey
loaded with buckets brayed under its weight, but the owner urged it forward with
a switch – his wife needed to do the laundry ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
The Beginning of Hadrut’s
Rebirth
[November 6, 2006]
“During the war, our nation won the right to live in freedom, and we should
be able to keep that,” said Commander of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Forces
and Defense Minister Major-General Seyran Ohanyan ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
God Has Already
Willed It, But We Must Do the Work
[November 6, 2006]
Shmavon Virabyan, the foreman in the Mets Shen section of the Khotorashen-Martakert
water pipeline, pointed at the tree-covered mountain in the fog, “Do you see
that white spot? It's the Irek Mankunk monastery. The water comes from there,
and that's where my boss is now.” ... [full
story]
Edik Baghdasaryan
Mets Tagher Gave 380 Soldiers
to the War
[November 6, 2006]
Mets Tagher, a village in the Hadrut region, is different from all the other
villages in Karabakh primarily because it has a teahouse ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
The Chronicles of Togh
[November 6, 2006]
If your roots are in Togh, or you are in any way connected to Togh, you can
be sure that you are mentioned in Petros Ghahriyan's book. Petros Dayi (Uncle
Petros) is the author of the chronicles of Togh, and one of the most respected
people in the village. His word is law ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
Water Everywhere
[November 6, 2006]
Yuri Grigoryan is a kankan by profession. Kankan is a Farsi
word for someone who digs wells. They were digging yet another kahrez in
Hadrut. A kahrez is an underground water pipe lined inside with stones
... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
The Hadrut Regional Hospital
[October 30, 2006]
65 year-old Hamo Babayan is an epidemiologist. He also serves a deputy director
of the Hadrut Hospital on a voluntary basis. He was appointed chief physician
in 1984, the year the hospital was built, and he occupied that position until
1994. During the war he managed the military medical service as well ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
We Need a Commandos Today
[October 30, 2006]
The village of Togh is proud of its heroes--Vigen Grigoryan, Armen Gasparyan,
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Ashot Khachatryan, Robert Sarkissyan, Susanna Balayan,
and others. Not all of them are alive today... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
Rebuilding All the Schools Will Take 80 Years at This Rate
[October 30, 2006]
Mataghis is a village located near the northeast border of Nagorno Karabakh.
It was occupied during the war by the Azerbaijanis, who emptied the village of
Armenians and leveled it ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
A Small World, Away From it All
[October 30, 2006]
The Children's Creativity Center in Hadrut has a history that spans fifty
years. For a little under half a century it was the favorite spot of a number
of generations in Hadrut ... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
No Tap Water in the Village of Mets Tagher
[October 23, 2006]
The road is so destroyed that you would never guess that it leads to the
village of Mets Tagher with its 1,507 residents and 300 years of history. We
are smothered in dust. We have finally reached the office of the village administration
... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
Unity is Strength
[October 23, 2006]
The 2005 Hayastan All-Armenian Armenia Fund telethon was dedicated in its
entirety to the region of Martakert. This included, for the first time, an agricultural
project aimed at the infrastructure development which is slowly becoming a reality
... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
In Hartashen, No Water and No Carousel
[October 23, 2006]
This year's drought has brought the residents of Hartashen to their knees.
There is no irrigation water in the village or its surroundings. People here
have to buy produce that could have been grown in their own fields, such as tomatoes,
cucumbers, and watermelons ... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
The Children Are Our Future
[October 23, 2006]
The first black-and-white TV set in the village of Tumi in the Hadrut region
appeared in 1965. Almost all the TV sets in the village are of the same type;
there are also few Soviet-made color TV sets on which the villagers watch Azerbaijani
and Russian programs ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
So that Hadrut is Always Beautiful
[October 23, 2006]
Larisa Sargsyan lives in Hadrut. She is a solo singer and one of the founding
members of the Karabakh Song and Dance Ensemble; she has been with the ensemble
for more than four decades
... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichyan
A Ruin That Resembles a School
[October 16, 2006]
I wanted to write “A School That Resembles A Ruin” but I think this is a
more befitting title, because a school can end up looking like a ruin for a number
of reasons – say, an earthquake, fire or flood – but I had never before seen
a ruin that resembles a school ... [full
story]
Viktoria Abrahamyan
A Promising Child
[October 16, 2006]
“I don't know what to do - whether to have the sixth one, or not,” mused
Nune Poghosyan, a 33-year old resident of the village of Azokh. “The sixth one” would
be Nune's sixth child. That child is not a planned or desired baby, but rather
a means to provide the other five with a roof over their heads ... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
The Present Passes Unnoticed
[October 16, 2006]
There is a restaurant a short distance below City Hall in Hadrut. People call
it “Emil's Restaurant” but the sign tells you that you have come to “Mher's”.
In contrast to other such institutions there, Emil's is clean and well designed,
and the food is not your regular barbecue and kebab fare ... [full story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
Genetic Potential Lies Dormant
[October 16, 2006]
Businessman Levon Hayrapetyan finds it hard to say which is the most important
region among the five regions of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, but the war led
him toward some new revelations ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
New Inhabitants of the Azokh Cave
[October 16, 2006]
Once in the 1960's, the cave in the village of Azokh in the Hadrut region
was surrounded by Azerbaijani policemen sent here from Baku for some six months.
“The Azerbaijanis had heard that the residents of Togh and other neighboring
villages had hidden their gold in the cave during the Mongol invasions. They
dynamited the cave beds to find the gold. They found nothing,” explained social
anthropologist Levon Yepiskoposyan ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamian
Now the time has come
for building
[October 9, 2006]
More that 340 people of Hadrut Region fell victims during the Artsakh war.
Nearly 30% of its area has been ruined and burnt several times, but the people
of Hadrut liberated itself through heavy sufferings. The region lives within
its everyday concerns and problems, however they never forget that the war is
not over yet. The social, financial and other problems make the life of people
living here very difficult but they don't get depressed ... [full
story]
Edik Baghdasaryan
The Tufenkian Foundation
in Artsakh
[October 9, 2006]
Aradjamugh, a new village in the Hadrut region, was built at the initiative
of the Tufenkian Foundation. Settlers have now occupied eighteen houses in the
village. Some are refugees from Azerbaijan, some have moved here from Armenia,
and others are from various villages of Nagorno Karabakh whose houses were destroyed
during the war ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichian
Let Green Peace know
it, too
[October 9, 2006]
In Hadrut I was looking for people with interesting background. I learned
about the one growing fir-trees of whom the people of Hadrut used to tell smilingly – “Yes,
he is our occupant”. The word “occupant” sounds unpleasant and I could not imagine
whom I was going to meet there. I expected to see a man with a gloomy face, tired
eyes, and husky voice, but I found a cheerful and a kind “occupant” by the gate
of his own house ... [full story]
Tigran Paskevichian
That’s why the village
can’t live
[October 9, 2006]
Arakyul is one of the ancient villages of Karabagh. After the liberation
movement, in the result of joint efforts of soviet soldiers and Azerbaijani all
the Armenians living in the village were deported. Nothing has been left from
the village. The only memory is the church built in the early 20 th century which
Azerbaijani couldn't manage to destroy. One of the older villagers Yervand Ghahramanian
has described the process of violent resettlement in 5 handwritten volumes ... [full
story]
Mher Arshakyan
Don’t count my effort to live a heroism
[October 2, 2006]
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. “I
was a gunlayer and a coordinator of the Turkish positions,” he explains the details
of his biography pertaining to the battles ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamyan
The Finest Men Abandon Their Homes
[October 2, 2006]
Arkady Arzumanian finds it hard to say exactly which generation of the Arzumanyans
living in Togh community he actually belongs to. However, he knows the history
and victories of Togh very well. “Togh is a unique and heroic village with recorded
heroic acts dating back as far as the 10th century, when the nomad Bugha failed
to conquer it even after having attacked the village 48 times with his troops
of 40,000 men ... [full
story]
Tigran Paskevichian
We live poorly on the fertile land
[October 2, 2006]
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. Being born in Yerevan and a generation of
Vaners he has no relations in Karabagh: He says he has liked the nature of Karabagh
very much and decided to come and live in Arakyul because it is a frontier village
and it should be populated ... [full
story]
Victoria Abrahamian
The water-queue in Azokh 24 hours a day
[October 2, 2006]
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. Mariam lives in Stepanakert and has come to her grandparents
... [full
story]
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