So Dreams May Live
“How can we let them destroy temples where every lit candle is someone’s dream?”.
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.
Even punishment should include care for a person
“If we are against the fact that a criminal should receive education and proper rehabilitation at the expense of the society, then he will just stay in jail at our expense, and sometimes stay repeatedly. We will pay that money anyway. The question is what we will get as an output.”
Pajamas with Rabbits
It is hard to talk openly about depression, just as it is hard to admit to yourself that you have it. I, too, spent a long time putting off that oppressive prospect — telling myself I was stuck and needed help. I followed the classic path of denial, despair, acceptance and fighting for my life. It is one of those roads you are unlikely ever to leave behind for good, but if I managed to learn to live and be happy all over again, then things are not so bad.
Not Today
From his earliest years, he refused to fight in dogfights. At eight, he caught neurological distemper. “About time,” his owners decided, and threw the useless dog out onto the street. But on trembling legs, Bassit hobbled into the right yard and chose a new life for himself. And lived it long and wonderfully.
Or Things Will Go Badly
Obstetric aggression is physical or psychological violence inflicted on a woman in the context of childbirth. Many women do not know that their rights are being violated, just as many gynecologists and obstetric practitioners do not know it either.
Not a Life Sentence
“Don’t wrench out the tongue, don’t break the jaw.” We talk to Elena Bagdasaryan, president of the Road of Life charitable foundation, about why it is important for people with epilepsy to receive high-quality medicines, for society to develop charitable giving, and for foundations to fight online fraudsters, as well as about a chicken received as a gift, stigma, and how to help foundations properly.
Cogs in the Same Machine
Somewhere out there walks a person who changed the world with a single breakfast.
In Her Arms
Arev longs for a miracle to happen one day, for her little girl to start walking and smiling. And for her always to have her medicines. She can handle everything else.
Doctor with a tail
The diary of a therapy dog that was written randomly in bits and pieces, being constantly interrupted by the cat climbed the dog to sleep on its back, by passers-by who had to be barked upon from the window, by delicious smells from the kitchen that infiltrated the nose and dissipated the remaining thoughts, and so on.
