Meetings of South-Caucasians promote settling conflicts, debaters of play "A Few Ways to Lose Friends" in Moscow believe

On May 24, during the festival of freedom devoted to the Andrei Sakharov's birthday, activists read and discussed the play "A Few Ways to Lose Friends" written during the festival in the village of Tekali located on the border between Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The participants of the readings have come to the conclusion that such meetings of the conflicting parties in South Caucasus and dialogues about tragedy experienced by them and translated into the framework of art allow overcoming the barrier of hostility.

Producer Mikhail Kaluzhsky, the author of the project, this April, has emphasized that during the Tekali festival, the Sakharov Centre supported the master class "Documentary theatre, personal history, and historical memory". According to Mikhail Kaluzhsky, during the master class, the festival participants from different countries gave interviews to each other and talked about how they lost their friends because of wars, political or ideological conflicts in South Caucasus. And those interviews have become the basis for a small play, which has been presented today in Moscow.

When speaking about whether the play allowed residents of the conflicting South Caucasus to overcome the barrier at least for a little, producer Mikhail Kaluzhsky has said: "I believe that such methods contribute to establishing contacts between people. And it means a lot in the situation of the states that declare hostility towards each other".