Electronic Referendum Launched over Turning Shoushi Pan-Armenian Cultural Center
April 4 Shoushi Foundation launched an electronic referendum (www.shoushi.am) to turn Shoushi into a pan-Armenian cultural and tourist center, Foundation initiator, writer, publicist Bakur Karapetyan stated at a news conference today. In his words, at least 1 US dollar or euro transferred to the Foundation will be considered as a vote. Bakur Karapetyan informed project of revival of Shoushi is worked out.
In the writer's words, with the financial support of the Beirut Catholic community, which provided $24 thousand, organized archaeological excavations were carried out in Shoushi Plateau, which specifically resulted in discovering a fortress of 12th century, registration of 525 historical monuments, tourism sights and cultural regions of the region were studied. Within the framework of the project the Foundation also registered evidence of all participants of the Artsakh liberation struggle to publish a multi-volume collection in the future, To remind, at the beginning of the Karabakh national liberation movement Shoushi population was 8000, while it numbers only 2500 at present.
In the writer's words, with the financial support of the Beirut Catholic community, which provided $24 thousand, organized archaeological excavations were carried out in Shoushi Plateau, which specifically resulted in discovering a fortress of 12th century, registration of 525 historical monuments, tourism sights and cultural regions of the region were studied. Within the framework of the project the Foundation also registered evidence of all participants of the Artsakh liberation struggle to publish a multi-volume collection in the future, To remind, at the beginning of the Karabakh national liberation movement Shoushi population was 8000, while it numbers only 2500 at present.
