Armenian Mountainous Village Shamut Gets Information from Space
When Garnik, a peasant of Shamut, appears in the center of the village, people surround him immediately to know the latest news and events in Armenia. Garnik himself learns about this news when talking with his Yerevan relatives by cell-phone. Garnik has willy-nilly become an alternative source of information for the peasants, as there is no television broadcasting in the village, and Armenian TV channels (H1, Shant, Armenia) could be watched only by those, who can afford to set up a satellite antenna on the roofs of their houses.
However, according to the peasants, besides news on TV they would like to receive alternative information. That is why any kind of information, told by Garnik, becomes a topic for hot discussions. Armenian village Shamut is one of the highest villages of Lori region at 1500 meters high above sea level.
There is one road only to the village, which stretches after Shamut and ends in Atan village of Lori region (1700 meters high). Shamut and several other villages of Lori are deprived of television because of the complexity of geological feature and land form, as the main broadcastings aired from the TV towers are inaccessible here.
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