14:40 . 22/05
The former rector of Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valeri Bryusov Suren Zolyan came to meet with journalists carrying a big folder. He brought the applications against Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan, the court’s answers, the ministers respond and the publications in the press on these processes.
Suren Zolyan has applied to court to appeal against the minister’s reprimand, the announcement that the university issues diplomas with specialties that are not taught in the university and the legality of the decision to dismiss him from the rector’s post.
“The issue is not personal or political, but legal,” the former rector said.
According to him, the court rejected the first application saying that it was written under the application “University’s rector Suren Zolyan” , but he is no more a rector. Zolyan advises to annul all the documents he has signed before April 17 by the same logic. The former rector is well aware of the atmosphere in the university today, too.
“Unfortunately, I must say that today the university doesn’t exist as an independent body as it is managed by the minister directly, or in absence of the minister, by the head of his staff Mher Ghazaryan. The lecturers and students were mainly implied the idea “Do you see what happened to Zolyan? Who are you to resist? And that does have its influence. People think they will do whatever they want,” Suren Zolyan said.
