The Baltă Periodical - Literacy Schools and the Aruzene Issue

*The Baltă Periodical Issue No. 1*
Foreword
*To the readers of the Periodical,*
I and the other authors of this news outlet do our very best to write to you, the good people of Baltă, the best quality informative paper in the region. If you, the good people, feel as if we at the Periodical have missed a fact that should be in any of our articles or if you feel as if there is an important event we should cover, feel free to write to us as we at the Periodical are here for you, the people.
-Nydan Badahasayan, Co-Founder of the Baltă Periodical

**Khazakyan's Literacy School**

Zhirayr Khazakyan, one of the co-founders and sponsors of this very paper, had been the vanguard of what he claimed to be the "Free Peasant" movement during the revolution, though relatively unknown to the bigger picture of the revolution. Despite so, Mr. Khazakyan had taken a very serious notice to the education and literacy of the Nydian people, as Nydia becomes a free and glorious nation, her inhabitants fall under the "Shackles of Illiteracy" as stated by Khazakyan.
This has led to the formation of the first 'Literacy School' of the region. Mr. Khazakyan has founded such a school near one of the more urban districts within Baltă, gathering himself and a few colleagues he had known as intellectuals to provide free and public education to the illiterate and uneducated.
 In an interview with Mr. Khazakyan, he was asked what exactly he would be teaching and how this could help Nydians as a whole.
"I see the Literacy School as a chance for anyone, commoner or not, to be given the gift of literacy and a knowledge of basic philosophy among other things. Baltă is quite well known for being the 'unproductive' side of the area, but I see potential in everyone here. From the Muslim to the Christian, we're all Nydians right now and we need to be strong together, not just in nationalism, but in knowledge and the capability to read, write, and see the world from a rational and educated perspective that much of our population so desperatley needs as they live under the shadow of the uneducated stigma..."
Mr. Khazakyan also offered solutions to the growing productivity problem in Baltă, "...perhaps then we could see Baltă grow as a vibrant region. If we could educate our people, they could find more industrious ways to use and exploit the resources in this marshy land..."
The views of Khazakyan are vast, but that is less the point of this article. For Mr. Khazakyan, he has the school located in Baltă able to teach in basic philosophy, reading, writing, and some various academic subjects, though he seeks to expand the school to offer industrial academics as well to bring Baltă much needed opprotunities to be seen.
- Hovik Jorian, Writer in the Periodical

**The Aruzene Plea** (Opinionated Acrticle)

The republic to the east of Baltă has sent dignitaries to our proud nation, seeing the northern neighbors of Nesskan ramp up military activity. I say it is to our benefit to diplomatically align with the Aruzene Republic to give the Nesskan's an offer of two-way diplomacy.
If we were to simply abandon the Aruzene, the people who sent a small contingent of volunteers to aid us in our glorious revolution, what say we just abandon ourselves as a nation? Nesskans sent us weapons as the Aruzene aided us, if were were to give up either or betray one, we would be giving up and betraying our own national ideals and our very honor. Such as, I hope to see the government give the Aruzene a diplomatic answer of mutual protection and to give the Nesskans an offer likewise to stabilize the region for the betterment of all along the coast.
- Nazar Eritian, Writer in the Periodical