RENOWNED ARMENIAN AUTHOR RETURNS STATE AWARD
By empty (7/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Silva Kaputikian, who is Armenia\'s most famous living poetess, has returned to President Kocharian the Mesrop Mashtots medal he bestowed on her in 1998, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. Kaputikian, who is 85 and played a key role interceding with then CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during the early weeks of the Karabakh conflict in 1988, said she decided to return the award to protest what she termed police \"reprisals\" against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan during the night of 12-13 April. (RFE/RL).Visit also
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