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ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE IS BETTER

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On September 23 14 years ago the RA Supreme Council declared Armenia an independent democratic country excluded from the Soviet Union, based on the results of the pan-national voting two days ago.

“We were simply a colony in the USSR, and that’s what we still are now. We are not independent and we will never be, until Van and Kars are ours, until we have large territory. Until then the word “independence” is an empty one”, 68-year-old Rouben Torosyan complains after 14 years.

45-year-old Gohar Simonyan is of the same opinion, “It was different back in the day. We were dependent on the Soviet Union only, and now we depend on the whole world. What’s the difference? I’m discontent with our way of life. Unemployment is terrible, people have no work, and they cannot live”.

Irrespective of the social difficulties, the RA citizens cannot but admit that “independence is a good thing”. “We are happy to be independent, as dependence is not good. I participated in the meetings for independence, and my hopes are justified. I’m very pleased”, said Christine Haroutyunyan. And although there is no work, Hovhannes Hounanyan is full of hope, “It is all not so bad. There are positive tendencies that the jobs will be re-created. What is important is that Armenia is an independent republic”.