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Samson Martirosyan

Samson Martirosyan

Samson Martirosyan is The Armenian Weekly's correspondent in Gyumri. He received his B.A. in international affairs from the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in Yerevan. A resident of Gyumri, Martirosyan has interned at the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan and has volunteered his time with various organizations. He is currently a Board member of the European Youth Parliament of Armenia.

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  2. I hope that we can see also that this treatment is not only anti-Armenian, it is anti-woman.
    Perhaps Armenians can take inspiration from these Kurdish men who have organized under the name Kurd Men for Equality.

    “Kurdish men in Iran have launched a Facebook campaign to send a message: being a woman is nothing to be ashamed of. The “Kurd Men for Equality” campaign was started in response to a judge’s ruling that forced a man convicted of domestic abuse to wear women’s clothing as a form of public humiliation.

    According to Global Voices, a local court in a Kurdish province of Iran ordered the man be escorted through the streets while wearing a red dress and hijab. Since then, Kurdish Iranians have organized on Facebook to speak out against the ruling, which they say is demeaning to women.” http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304222317-0022695

  3. The Armenian Government has no balls. Which country would let their veterans be treated like this ? I would tell Russia what they could go do ! I am so pissed !

    • Reading this article does not give one the sense that blame can be placed on the Armenian Regime. Running the government of a country is complicated and I hope they are focusing on the many and not the one. I would hate to see a confrontation with Russia result in repercussions in other areas of say the economy. However, information itself is power. Armenians are everywhere. Write to the Russian embassy in your country. Everyday stand up for the oppressed. We have a warden in the US that revels in his inhumanity http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/27/tough.sheriff/.

      I think I will write two letters today- one for my Armenian countryman and one for my Arizona countrymen.

  4. As an Azeri, it is of course hard to be sympathetic to an Armenian veteran, but the way Russia is treating him is unbelievable. Unbelievable actually and yet believable too. Most Russians are so filthily racist, that I am not sure why a big expose like a New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly article has not already pointed this out to the world community. People from Caucasus are treated like African Americans were treated in the South in 1930s. In this unfortunate Armenian guy’s case, the innocent-till-proven guilty does not even apply, because the Caucasian men in Moscow are guilty-till-proven-innocent or subhuman-before-proven-human. It is not just the criminal system that is like this. Average Russians in the street … An Azeri friend from Moscow tells horror stories of racism, and I am shocked he still lives there. E.g., you are standing in line for something, a Russian comes up to you and says, “You are too dark. Go back to the line. I am Russian.” Or, a store clerk refusing to serve you and advising you to go “home.”

  5. Absolutely unacceptable. Armenian govertnment owe our veterans not only their attentions but their lives if necessary. Its because of our heroes they are sitting in their cushy houses and enjoying freedom.. Shame on them for not standing up for Hrachya who not only could have lost his life protecting our lands but lost his own son… I am absolutely disgusted with them and the Russian treatment ..

  6. No natioon in the world should humiliate any person or human beings.I would call this action ANTI- ARMENIAN.In every Armenian news paper we should stress Anti-Armenian dialogue.We must Agressively fight for Armenian Genocide,Armenian Genocide teaching has started @ schools of San Francisco.We should Rally wearing the flags of every nation.If courts agree the robes in the court they would accept the flags of all nation in the streets.This action is done purposly to start the fight between Rachia and Armenia, I’m sure the Judge was not Russian,they are those sneeky rat races that stirr the whole world.Can’t you live a happy life you psychothics?

  7. I agree with Raffi. Armenia’s regime has no balls. And the reason is the lack of democracy. As long as Armenia’s people is denied democracy, its government will depend on Russia and not Armenia’s people, and the voice of the people will not matter to the government. This is why democracy is a matter of national security for Armenia: the only way to make it stronger, more dignified, and less humiliated.

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