Journalist Oskan Sargsyan writes.
"2025 On September 20, in his speech at the 7th congress of the "Civil Agreement" party, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addressed the issue of border demarcation with Azerbaijan and Kirants, declaring: "The demarcated border is the guarantee of security, and those who don't believe this should go to Kirants, where children go to school and play football just 50-60 meters from Azerbaijan. Do their parents have safety concerns? They don't have, otherwise they wouldn't allow their children to go to school and play football just 50-60 meters from the border with Azerbaijan. If the children of Kirants had endured 40 years without a normal school and football field, they would have endured even more in case of security fears, but there is no need to endure, because there is peace and peace is in Kirants, peace is in Armenia."
The parents of Kirants village have security concerns, but where, which village public schools should they send their school-aged children to?
Why should those parents forbid their children to play football in the playground of the newly built school, next to which the Armenia-Georgia interstate highway stretches, on the edge of which is the border-fence, partly made of stone, mostly made of tin?
After handing over 15 hectares of land from the village of Kirants, including the Kirants bridge of the Armenia-Georgia interstate highway, to Azerbaijan in 2024 under the name of demarcation, the newly built school of Kirants is not 50-60 meters away from the border of Azerbaijan, but 30-40.
In recent years, the number of primary students in Kirants has decreased. In the 2023-2024 academic year, the primary school of Kirants had 42 students, in the 2024-2025 academic year - 34 students. I have learned from the Tavush governor's office that in the 2025-2026 academic year, 37 students are studying in the primary school of Kirants, that is, the number of students in the school has decreased by 5 in 2 years. Previously, it was announced that after the new building of the Kirantsi school was put into operation, the primary school of Kirantsi would receive the status of a secondary school, but the school in the border village did not become a secondary educational institution.
In previous years, the high school students of such Kirants village go to classes from Kirants every working day to the secondary schools of Nerkin Tsaghkavan and Sarigiugh of Ijevan community.
