"This volume is Tigran's raw nerve." The presentation of Tigran Hayrapetyan's book "A Thousand Years of Desert" took place (photos)

In the materials collected in the first three volumes, the author presented the problems of Armenia and the region, the ambitions of geopolitical centers and the role of Armenia in these processes. In this volume, the author analyzes the possible perspectives of Armenia, considering them in the context of the contrasts of war and peace, democracy and dictatorship. The articles and analyses collected in the book are highly relevant, especially in our difficult times.

Nazeni Gharibyan, the editor of the book "A Thousand Years of Desert", presenting the collection of articles, said that the author regularly warned about the impending disasters in the 4th volume. "If you read it, you will see, he constantly repeats: "As we warned, as we said...". No matter how brutally truthful Tigran himself could be, he remained optimistic and insisted until the end that there was a way, there were solutions, and in this book, as in all previous volumes, there are keys, and he did not predict, but to say that if we go this way, we get this result, if we go the other way, then we will achieve this. And there was another way, which was the worst for him. It was the loss of Karabakh and this situation we found ourselves in."

According to Artak Apitonyan, a member of the Council of the Exoriente Union of Armenian orientalists, this volume is the most important because it describes everything we went through. "If the political models calculated with mathematical precision and their possible projections on the Armenian reality are summarized in the previous volumes, this volume is Tigran's raw nerve. For me, this volume is Tigran's regular call. "What have you guys been doing since 1991?"

According to Arsen Gasparyan, the president of the Exoriente Union of Armenian Orientalists, American University lecturer and Tigran Hayrapetyan's fellow student, Tigran Hayrapetyan was one of the founders of political thought and political philosophy in Armenia. He noted that although Hayrapetyan did not receive a political science education and graduated from YSU's Faculty of Oriental Studies, his articles are serious political science interpretations. "It is unusual because there was no political science in Armenia at that time. It is unusual how Tigran could analyze various processes related to Armenia and the region with exceptional accuracy."

According to Artak Aleksanyan, the CEO of the Newmag Publishing House, Tigran Hayrapetyan's volumes have one feature, everyone will find what they are looking for. "He is a flexible classic. If you want to find a criticism of today's reality, you will find it. If you want to find an explanation of today's reality, you will find it too." Tigran Hayrapetyan's friend, actor and director Zohrap Bek-Gasparents, who staged the play "Under 44 Degrees" based on his story, recalled Tigran's words.

"He said what we are talking about now, you will make a play and stage it. Unfortunately, he is not with us, but we did not manage to make a play, it was only a 2-page story, which was staged in the Hamazgayin theater. Tigran was the man who thought nationally, which everyone needs now. I would very much like screenwriters and directors to refer to Tigran's writings because they will be passed on from generation to generation."

According to Knarik Jalatyan, a student of the Faculty of Political Science of the American University of Armenia, if Tigran Hayrapetyan was alive, he would not have fought against the ghost of the Soviet Union but would have talked about Artsakh and called things by their proper names. "Often, when we, the generation of independence, are told that we have a big burden to get out from under all this, we expect help from our older generation. It seems to me that these articles by Tigran Hayrapetyan are exactly the help we need to think and show the way."