On Either Side of the Road
At the beginning of December, Maral Apelyan came from Mets Shen to Yerevan for surgery. Now she is waiting for the only road linking Artsakh to Armenia to reopen so that she can return home.
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Sketches
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The General Said No
A roadside sketch about a little carelessness and a great calamity, an unseen general—forgotten, though—and cows that were completely blameless.
· 17 min
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The Great Cat Secret
How do stray cats find themselves new owners? Writer and screenwriter Marina Sobe-Panek told us about it especially for a charity house concert in aid of the Centaur therapy centre and shelter for stray animals.
· 11 min
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When I Died
Understand herself. Move forward. Not get drawn into the general despondency. Grow and change the world around her. Not shut herself away in grief for those she lost in the war, but live — in their stead too. Be a bright sun, not murky water. That is what little Nina decided, having grown several years older in just a few days.
· 18 min
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Black New Year
After Armenia’s capitulation in the war with Azerbaijan, many Armenian villages disappeared from the map of Karabakh. The editor of “Kalemon” recounts the last hours of emptiness spent on the eastern border.
· 19 min
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The House Where Heroes Are Born
‘The House Where Heroes Are Born’ — with this phrase, Alik, who was accompanying us, unwittingly supplied a title for the article that had not yet been born as we were leaving the Sloyans’ house.
· 13 min
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“How can we let them destroy temples where every lit candle is someone’s dream?”
So Dreams May Live
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Dad Works for the Spider
About 40 children and 20 women are living in the kindergarten in the village of Aghtsk — guests or people temporarily displaced from Artsakh. At the kindergarten they avoid the word “refugees”: so it won't be for long, so the war won't linger. Melanya is one of them. On September 27 the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled her village of Ivanyan in the Askeran district with a Smerch multiple-launch rocket system.
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