STEPANAKERT, JUNE 20, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY Villages in the Berdadzor subregion of Shoushi, in some parts of Martakert and in other places of Artsakh are being vacated. As Aramayis Hovhannisian, Headmaster of the secondary school of the village of Karintak of Artsakh, mentioned in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent, currently the capitals of Armenia and Karabakh, Yerevan and Stepanakert, have become "huge heads" and their "bodies," regions, have remained "dwarf." As the Headmaster of Karintak school commented, if we speak about it in the respect of the number of population, we can say that the half of the population of Armenia and Karabakh lives in Yerevan and Stepanakert and "indirectly we are turning into city-states." According to Aramayis Hovhannisian, such weak regions can hardly finance education in the future. "State dotations are needed for maintaining education, I do not see any other variant for providing a full-value education," the Headmaster emphasized. In addition, many village schools of Artsakh have few pupils, the total number of pupils in them is 7, 8, 9 or 10. "A village exists with the young generation. If there is no school, there is no village, either," Aramayis Hovhannisian is convinced. "Most of villagers are unemployed: one should have a job in order to keep his family, the state should support villagers. No family, no village can be kept with the miserable social benefits. So, many people have to leave our land conquerred at the price of our blood, they go to where there is bread and job," A.Hovhannisian said. According to the Headmaster of Karintak village school, today this problem partly concerns their village. Today the village of Karintak has 600 inhabitants and 95 pupils attend the village school. The inhabitants of this village having no sowing areas earn for their living with money received from growing melons and gourds. "We are able to live here by cultivating one inch of land realizing that to leave the village will mean to surrender it," Aramayis Hovhannisian is convinced.

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