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Nanore Barsoumian

Nanore Barsoumian

Nanore Barsoumian was the editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2014 to 2016. She served as assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly from 2010 to 2014. Her writings focus on human rights, politics, poverty, and environmental and gender issues. She has reported from Armenia, Nagorno-Karabagh, Javakhk and Turkey. She earned her B.A. degree in Political Science and English and her M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the University of Massachusetts (Boston).
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  1. I say bravo to all of them.  Bravo to my little nation for struggling as free and independent human beings and exercising their democratic rights to peaceful protest.  Bravo to the environmentalists who worry about the care of the dolphins.  Bravo to the mothers who want to see the joy in their children’s eyes when watching these fascinating creatures.  Bravo to my countrymen who struggle for balance on the frontlines of nation building.  And Bravo to Nanore, ‘kouyrig jan’, for bringing this story to us.

  2. Whats alarming about this article is the low logic of the actions that take place in Yerevan. There has to be other ways to revive the park or to turn a profit from the land in the park that is better then a Dolphin show. and the argument that it is therapeutic is silly, equine therapy has better results, an as someone mentioned if they collected stray dogs and had children handle them it would have the same effect. But this article shows again the business classes willingness to adopt anything that is sold to them from an outside country and in this case Ukraine, so they will do it, exploit the dolphins, exploit the children who will ask to go, and exploit the parents that will have to take them at high ticket prices. This is what happens in a city whose mayor is asked to step down, whose planning department refuse to act, and when ministries do not feel that they need to provide their citizens with an answer to their questions, Im sure this was not the Democracy the people after the collapse of the soviet union cheered for.
    This is not just about the exploitation of these Dolphins, this is about the exploitation of the people including the business people who organized this circus show who sell their lives for a few shiny cars and perceived endless tables of Khorovads. Baree Aghorjag

  3. Whether its protests against the treatment of dolphins or the protests against car insurance or the protests against the use of seat-belts or the protests against laws prohibiting nasty street vendors, I yet have to come across an “opposition” group in Armenia that knows what the hell they are doing. I don’t know what’s worst for the country, hooligans with money or idiots with bullhorns?

  4. The mental level of those who govern MY COUNTRY never ceases to amaze me. W have so many problems in hand and they are building a fish tank! For whom? I know for whom. The entire population will foot the bill and the super-rich will enjoy it because the entrance fee will be way over the reach of the regular Hakop, and a few sharlatan komissars will steal lots of Drams to put in the trusiks of pole dancers. How about building a school or two in our Gyughs? How about helping those poor beggars cowering on the steps of Barekamakan? How about the lady who sells semuchka seeds in Hraparak? Fish tank! Only those with the brain of the fish would build a fish tank in a country that needs jobs, production, and a share — no matter how small — in the world markets. Let’s learn from the Chinese; make junk and sell it to the world! No, thanks, we don’t need fish tanks.

  5. Free The dolphins and Build a cheapo verzion of the imax theatre in that place earthquake proof and show the dolphins in the ocean where they belong and make money off the tickets.  This way everyones happy.  I am an armenian from turkey and didnt understand to well what they were saying im sure it i can figure out from the bits and pieces of what i did understand.  They are desperate to make money and the animals need a voice to be heard.  People need to watch real videos of how some of these animals are really treated in reality.  they are forced in bad ways and still perform through injuries and sometimes they even rebel against their keepers and trainers.  This should be enough just show the videos.  I give them credit for defending wild life even in such a poor country.  you would be suprised how very little people actually know about the way things really are. Dolphins are amazing and keeping them confined is an injustice to the animal.
     
     

  6.  Further to my comments of yesterday about the Dolphinarium fiasco, I wish our politicians would take the time [away from casinos] to read the two lead aticles in today’s Armenian Weekly: New Report on Armenia Poverty Worries UNICEF, and On the Genocide Conference in Yerevan. Juxtapose the importance of these “current affairs” with that of the idiotic dolphinarium! Let’s have dual citizenship and throw these bums out of office. We can do without fat, barrel-shaped, kerac-xmac bureaucrats.

  7. Boyajian,
    if you stand for nothing, you fall for everything!
    Bravo to the corruption, bravo to the oligarchs, bravo to giving a rats behind to what the people think. Yes, bravo to Armenia. Bravo!
    Jan

  8. Sorry Jan, I do have a stand on the issue, but chose not to speak about it in favor of applauding the unfolding democratic process and politically active citizenry of Armenia.  I stand for a strong Armenia made up of enthusiastic and vocal Armenians who know and use their own voice and conscience to shape their own nation.

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