Have you read the Yashar’s “Parting” up to the end? I do it with a great difficulty and not because it’s not interesting, quite the opposite. The story makes me thing from the first sentence and in the middles I lose the place I got.

…an Azeri gay is sending away his mother but in sensual even he is getting free of his enemy. The entire story develops without any drama but in quite suffer. They both are oblations of an incomprehensible conflict…

Here I am stopping describing my impressions of the story. I thing you will have your own ones. But I would like to discus the actuality of the story. Our parents will never imagine its possibility but even if it is strange we regard it as an every day occurrence for our generation.  All these time too many mixed families were separated and too many reveries were broken.

And returning to our story: the described village, the people living there, their thoughts and “what is normal there” now. But just imagine we lived for almost 30 years ago under the Soviet Union’s predominance.

And I ask you if this story would have been actual that time? I thing no. Here a smile Even if it is strange Soviet Union also had some advantages.

And what we have taken from the history. But not the good sides, have we?

In Russian Recently I was looking through the Thomas De Waal’s “Black garden” and noticed an expression which I hadn’t taken under consideration before. He writes that Nagorno Karabax conflict rather than the other conflicts is in people’s consciousness. When you listen to Armenians and Azerbaijanis about the Nagorno Karabax conflict, you realize that they are only saying the lines of different points of view learnt by heart. And these lines are perceived and accepted as they are said. Reading these I remembered my Azerbaijanian friends with who except for doing some frolics and having hearty conversations we also discuss political issues. There are only two things which don’t complete our roles - the table of parley and ties. And during all the discussion we all try to remember all clever ideas ever said by our politics and diplomats.

Of course no fresh mind, no new point of view. And it is not because we don’t have any, but because we are some kind of robots in this not existing war.

Though we see nothing on the other side of the border and sometimes even don’t try, but the connection between our nations is inescapable. There are too many mixed families. We are connected by culture, trading and so on.

What doesn’t let us to solve this problem of conflict which is so deep in our mind?

May be the starting? So let’s start from here.

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In Russian

Hi!!! We are expecting your active participation and starting LitLab’s discussions. First of all we are interested in your opinion if it’s expedient internet contacts between conflicting countries representatives such as Armenia and Azerbaijan (also Greeks and Turks, Serbs and Albans, Jews and Palestine’s, Georgians and Aphasias). Please explain your position. And now imagine that tomorrow both presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan announce that Nagorno Karabax conflict has been solved and bounds are open. Will you visit the country which has been regarded as the enemy by your government? If yes, what will be aim of your visit. After all, what you think is it possible peace stabilize between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
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