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These days, and
those days in Gyumri.
Teenagers from Tragedy: Young people write about
their Gyumri Gayane
Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
GYUMRI -- Fifteen years have passed since the day December
7 was written in black on the republic's calendars,
when three major cities of Armenia became ruins, when
thousands of children became orphans.
But life goes on. Those mothers with names of lost
children on their lips, with strength of spirit, gave
birth to new children. A new generation was born - a
post-earthquake generation, spared the horrifying disaster,
but inheritors of the outcome.
The Ritual of Remembering: Gyumri,
on the 15th year of disaster
Analysis by Naira Manucharova
ArmeniaNow deputy editor
GYUMRI -- "Dear audience, today we want to show
you a performance dedicated to the ancient city which
lived through much pain and suffering but didn't lose
the main thing, its color and optimistic approach to
life."
So begins a performance of the Meghvik (Bee) company
at the Gyumri Puppet Center.
STEPANKERT, NKR -- When Raya Babaeva appears in the
newsroom of Artsakh Public TV and Radio her colleagues
become enthusiastic and sincerely greet her saying "Hi,
Raya jan, where have you been, we missed you."
Such warm relations between colleagues would probably
cause no curiosity until one learns some things about
this relationship.
Guys like Tim Straight inspire me. On this week's site
there's a story about a really cool project he dreamed
up. Women like Shakeh Havan inspire me, too. She's a
businesswoman who recently started a book project for
kids in Armenian villages that I hope you'll read about
soon.
Plenty of other people here, too - expatriates, Diaspora
and, especially forward-thinking locals, encourage those
around them to step outside themselves.
Lianna Aghajanyan doesn't remember learning to knit.
Seems that it was just one of those things Armenian
girls do.
She remembers, though, growing up in a place so unsafe
her family finally had to leave it.
Lianna is a refugee, a word that she doesn't like because
it is a word too many have made synonymous with "alien"
or something worse. It is a word that usually describes
people facing extreme hardship that was not of their
making.
Will a Biblical figure replace the Godfather of Socialism
in the capital of Armenia? Will Noah stand where Lenin
stood in Republic Square?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Now that the reconstruction of Armenia's main square
has been completed, the question is again being debated
as to whose statue will be placed as a centerpiece in
the spot between the main post office and Armenia Hotel.
Armenian journalists, coaches and referees were polled
by the Armenian Football Federation for choosing the
Football Player of the Year and other nominations such
as best goalkeeper, best midfielder, best defender.
About 100 hardliners marched in Yerevan
last Saturday to mark the 83 year anniversary of Armenia
becoming a communist country. Many oldtimers wish it
were, still.
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