Epress.am News from Armenia
“March 1 is one of the most important, immediate, urgent tasks in our country [today]. I can’t picture another issue that can be placed above March 1 in classification,” said publicist Tigran Paskevichyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today and presenting the 124-minute film “Armenia’s Lost Spring,” which was directed by Ara Shirinyan with Arakel Semirjyan onboard as consultant and Paskevischyan himself as the film’s writer.
The film is comprised of two parts: the first, covers the period from Sept. 2007 till Mar. 1, 2008 — that is, the period leading up to the presidential elections of Feb. 19, 2008, the election and the period after including the mass protests against alleged electoral fraud that followed. Тhe second part [of the film] presents the actual events of March 1 and their not being uncovered.