{"id":283416,"date":"2018-01-30T19:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283416"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:52:27","slug":"presentation-of-anti-armenian-saakashvilis-book-cancelled-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/01\/30\/presentation-of-anti-armenian-saakashvilis-book-cancelled-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of \u2018Anti-Armenian\u2019 Saakashvili’s Book Cancelled in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The management of the Yeghishe Charents House-Museum in Yerevan recently violated a previously reached agreement and refused to provide space for the presentation of the Armenian translation of the book by former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili \u201cAwakening of Force.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe reached an agreement with the director of the house-museum Anahit Asatryan on January 25, and I created a Facebook event for the presentation the same evening. On January 26, however, they told us there were some technical issues with the agreement and that we could not hold the presentation there,\u201d Mikael Nahapetyan, the translator of the book into Armenian and the organizer of the event, said in an interview with Epress.am.<\/span><\/p>\n

The organizers have been forced to change the date of the event: the presentation will take place on February 7, at a yet unknown venue. \u201cI am really sorry that the book is getting bad press before people have even had the chance to read it. I can tell you about my motivation for translating the book: a state changed right under our nose, it underwent a fundamental change. Good or bad – that\u2019s not the point now. People have the right to receive information, the right to hear the point of view of the team that implemented these changes, to see their methods and to decide whether there is anything to learn from their experience,\u201d Nahapetyan added.<\/p>\n

The public has been comparing the cancellation of the presentation of Saakashbili\u2019s book with the closing of the exhibition<\/a><\/strong><\/span> dedicated to the victims of the Bolshevik tyranny past September at the appeal of Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Culture. The Ministry have yet to comment whether they had anything to do with the cancellation; spokesperson Ruzanna Khachatryan has been telling reporters to send them written inquiries. The director of the Charents house-museum, for her part, has not been answering our phone calls.<\/p>\n

Judging by the comments on the event page on Facebook, Armenian-speaking users have dramatically different opinions about Saakashvili: some people \u201creally admire\u201d his reforms, while others accuse him of being \u201canti-Armenian.\u201d Namely, Mesrop Yesayan, an assistant to the Minister of Nature Protection, commented: “Does [the book] mention the Armenians of Javakhk jailed by Saakashvili?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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