11 July 2015, 11:50
At contest "Hero of Caucasus-2014", Artak Kirakosyan is chosen first among equals in Southern Caucasus
Readers of the "Caucasian Knot" have finished voting at the first stage of the contest "Hero of the Caucasus-2014" and elected the first among equals out of the candidates representing Southern Caucasus. In total, within 10 days, from July 1 to July 10, there were 15,686 votes for the laureates of the first stage of the contest "Hero of the Caucasus-2014" representing Southern Caucasus.
The winner of the contest is the 47-year-old Artak Kirakosyan from Armenia, who held a study on security in the border villages, which are exposed to fire. He won 24.05% of the total votes.
Readers of the "Caucasian Knot" gave the second place to the Azerbaijani rights defender Khalid Bagirov with 23.88% of the votes. He defended the well-known activists Gurban Mamedov, Leyla and Arif Yunus, Rasul Jafarov and others.
The third place went to Ruzanna Avakyan, a public figure of Nagorno-Karabakh, who won 22.43% of votes. Thanks to her, 17 families received social care help. In 2014, Ruzanna Avakyan organized, of her personal initiative, concerts for sick children, who needed treatment abroad.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
