In the busy places of towns and villages in the region of Tavush – bus stations, shop walls etc. – announcements with information on the itineraries of companies that transport passengers to Russia by bus are hung. The payment is much cheaper than an airplane ticket.
The emigration to Russia from the region bordering on Azerbaijan continues. Buses travelling from Yerevan to the towns of the Russian Federation make a stop at the marketplace of Ijevan, in Noyemberyan, Ayrum, villages in the region, filling up with people leaving Armenia forever.
Residents of Tavush also use a program of migration to Russia called Compatriots, settle down in different parts of the Russian Federation, including remote Siberia.
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24 years ago, on December 10, 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Armenia that had suffered an earthquake. Before coming to Armenia, he said to journalists of the USSR central and
Armenian television regarding the rumors spread in Armenia: “They [activists of the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM), V. S.] spread rumors that there is a plan to take children to Russia and not bring them back to Armenia again, separate them from the people, that Armenians will be resettled in Siberia now. Listen to me, is it appropriate to do such things now? I ask you what moral principles these people adhere to.”
Voskan SARGSYAN
