The council of the Civilitas Foundation made a statement today, which read that there was persecution of some workers of the foundation too. According to the source, Yerevan State University hasn’t signed a contract with journalist Tatul Hakobyan this year without any explanation. www.aravot.am asked Aram Simonyan, the rector of YSU, for a comment on specifically Tatul Hakobyan. The rector assessed such news as slander, adding that he didn’t even know Tatul Hakobyan.
Mr. Simonyan also added, “If the contract with Tatul Hakobyan has not been extended, it wasn’t extended in August, so starting from September 1, therefore, all that cannot have anything to do with politics. If there is such a thing, it is just related to not having academic hours and in the given case, we prefer YSU professors to the invited ones.”
Gohar HAKOBYAN