Hunger strikers in conversation with Vazgen I, 1990

A rare photograph from 1990. Sos Sargsyan, Zori Balayan and Henrik Igityan, participants in a hunger strike declared in Moscow, in conversation with the Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I. The hunger strike was declared in protest against Mikhail Gorbachev’s dissolution of the constitutional authority in Artsakh.

There are six people in the room. On the right, a bearded clergyman in a black cap with a cross sits in an armchair; in front of him a man sitting on the floor talks on the telephone, while the others sit on a sofa and in an armchair. Flowers are in the foreground.