Since then, almost all refugees from Karabakh could receive 50 thousand drams (about $ 129) per month – 40 thousand drams for housing rental and 10 thousand drams for utilities. In the end of 2024, the Ministry of Labor of Armenia announced that from April 2025 the program conditions will change. The manual will continue to receive children under 18 years of age, people over 63 years old, people with disabilities of the first and second group, as well as families who have lost the breadwinner. Disabled refugees from the program were excluded. At the same time, payments will be gradually reduced: from 50 thousand to 30 thousand drams. “This decision caused many anger and concern for their own future. For the vast majority of refugees from Karabakh, this assistance has become an additional guarantee of financial security, if not the only source of income, ”writes the journalist Rome Grigoryan in the release of the newsletter of the English -speaking Medusa. Some refugees who lost loved ones during the fighting told her that it was difficult for them to overcome their grief and return to work. 1 January 2024, the Republic of Artsach ceased to exist. The war in Nagorno -Karabakh ended with the victory of Azerbaijan, look at the thirty -five -year history of this conflict through the eyes of both sides of January11, 2024, the Republic of Artsach ceased to exist. The war in the Nagorno -Karabakh ended with the victory of Azerbaijan, look at the thirty -five -year history of this conflict through the eyes of both Sorchaim Grigoryan spoke with Marina and Inessa Agaronyan. They are 48 and 50 years old. After a forced flight from Karabakh, they lived with their 85-year-old mother Rai (she recently died) and a teenage nephew in an apartment of 50 square meters. Until the 44-day war of 2020, sisters and their relatives lived in Gadrut in a two-story building that their parents built in 1972. “These are the keys to our house. I took them with a blanket and this shirt. The metal rusts, but that’s all that I have left. I feel that these keys are the last fragment of hope, the last connection with Artsakh. I believe that if we store them, once they will bring us home, ”said Marina, sorting through the keys in their hands. In the Nagorno -Karabakh, the sisters worked as teachers: Marina taught piano, and Inessa – the Russian language. After the transfer of the Hadrut to the control of Azerbaijan and the family’s move to Yerevan, Marina managed to maintain the teacher’s work, and Inessa had to get a job in the store. “We both have a job, and we also get 50 thousand drams from the state, but we barely cover our expenses. The government gives us this money, but they go directly to the lessor, ”says Inessa. – If they stop help, I do not know what we will do. We will not be able to afford this tiny apartment. They gave us refugee cards, but what is the point, if the only help we receive will be stopped soon? ”The decision to reduce the program in the Armenian government was explained by attempts to push refugees to search for work, as well as encouragement to participate in a special housing program. As part of this program, refugees are offered from three to five million drams (from 7650 to 12760 dollars) for a family member for the purchase or construction of a house. However, one of the conditions for participation is the receipt of Armenia citizenship. “We are told to work, but we are already working, and this is still not enough. We have a family of three of them, what apartment can we buy with this money? Real estate prices are growing rapidly. We do not want much, just replacing the house that we were forced to leave, ”says Marina. – And we do not want to abandon our passports. The adoption of Armenian citizenship would mean the recognition that we have lost Nagorny Karabakh, but we want to preserve it. “Another refugees told The Beet that the loss of state assistance will most likely force a larger number of their compatriots to leave Armenia altogether. Sisters Agaronyan say they do not want to go abroad. “I believe that we refugees must unite and protest against this decision,” Inessa said. – We do not ask much, only part of what we have lost. The government says that we only demand, but what (another choice) did they leave us? ”Since the end of March, refugees from Karabakh have been arranging protests in Yerevan, urging the government to cancel the decision to reduce assistance. In particular, the protesters began a sedentary strike on Freedom Square. On April 3, the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Khachatryan met with representatives of the Council for the Protection of People’s Rights, forcibly moved from Nagorno-Karabakh. According to representatives of the council, they were made to understand that they will not restore the 40+10 program as the same. At the same time, officials assured the protesters that they were ready to develop new social and housing programs. Other requirements of protesters, including the preservation of the collective return of refugees on the agenda of the government and international structures – the authorities proposed to answer in writing. “The shares will be continued, since these answers now do not satisfy us,” said the representative of the APREA Margarian Council. “I remember the black screen. Whistle in the ears. Some game occurs ”a fragment of the book“ Where ”Kolya Stepanyan. He was among the six Armenian military who disappeared during the Second Karabakh war – and wrote about this the book “I remember a black screen. Whistle in the ears. Some game occurs ”a fragment of the book“ Where ”Kolya Stepanyan. 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