26 April 2003, 22:24
?Memorial?s? gift to Stepanakert?s Press Club
While visiting Nagorny Karabah recently, the member of the Board of the International Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society ?Memorial?, the director of regional network programmes and informational projects Grigory Shvedov handed over about 70 various books and publications to the Stepanakert?s Press Club (SPC). As it was agreed with the president of the Club, the SPC undertook to keep publications as a separate stock in compliance with standard library norms, to provide access to them for all interested people, and to present publications to general public by means of mass media. Books, laser disks, as well as periodicals granted by the Society ?Memorial? contain various information about Stalinist repressions, rights of refugees and people subjected to repressions and mechanisms of their realization, materials on international norms of human rights. After information on the library created in the press club had appeared in local mass media, the first visitors came to the SPC. Journalists, historians, and lawyers have become interested in purely professional materials most of all, but the materials on people subjected to repressions gained the greatest popularity among visitors. It should be mentioned that according to prior arrangement between the SPC and the Society ?Memorial? the library will be replenished with new publications from time to time.
Author: Gegam Bagdasaryan, expert of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations Source: Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (Moscow)
