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  • #21
    Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

    Just returned from Armenia.
    The crafted facade of the entrance has been removed (a blue tarp is now in its place). Don't know what they will do to it. Some people think that it is going to be used in the new building. Can't confirm.
    The stone facade has not been demolished either.
    No one seems to know what are the exact plans.

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    • #22
      Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

      Originally posted by ZORAVAR View Post
      Just returned from Armenia.
      The crafted facade of the entrance has been removed (a blue tarp is now in its place). Don't know what they will do to it. Some people think that it is going to be used in the new building. Can't confirm.
      The stone facade has not been demolished either.
      No one seems to know what are the exact plans.
      Any pictures?
      Plenipotentiary meow!

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      • #23
        Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

        And another one is demolished.



        "Architectural Alarm: Activists want to raise noise about razing of Afrikyan house"

        I wonder if big game hunters can use the same excuse. "I didn't kill that rare white rhino - I merely dismantled it so I can use its dna to put it back together again somewhere more convenient."
        Plenipotentiary meow!

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        • #24
          Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

          Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
          Thanks. If you can get new photos and post them here, that would be good!
          Big supermarkets are secretive monopolies - small traders and market sellers can source their own supplies. I suppose that's why the oligarchs like the former and try to close down the latter.
          this is sideway


          This is the Blue Mosque right the opposite the market.

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          • #25
            Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

            Yerevan’s ‘Pak Shuka’: An Iconic Market’s Uncertain Future
            YEREVAN (A.W.)—What was once known as “one of Armenia’s best architectural structures” is now subject to demolition. For the past six decades, tourists and locals alike flocked to the Pak Shuka (literal translation “closed market,” [...]


            I wonder if this article has been surpressed for several months - it is dated September but the last date mentioned in it is early June and all the photographs are from February.

            Or maybe it is just Armenian Weekly displaying fake outrage now that it is safely too late to express real outrage with the inconvenient obligation to do something to stop the destruction.


            He’s one of the country’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, widely known as “Lfik Samo” (a nickname where “Lfik” comes from the Russian word for bra, as Samvel’s father owned a bra shop in Soviet times).
            Is that really the correct translation. "Лфик" doesnt translate to anything in Google translate, and the Russian word for "bra" is completely different.

            And there is also "Nemets Rubo" (Ruben Hayrapetyan) and "Samo Kaluga" (Samvel Karapetyan) - what do their names mean. Dodi Gago's fans (or employees) hate that his nikname appears on his Wikipedia article and are always trying to get it removed.
            Last edited by bell-the-cat; 09-18-2012, 04:32 PM.
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            • #26
              Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

              I love the Blue Mosque on Prospect street. Very beautiful design. I entered the courtyard once though to see how the renovation had went, and I was shown my way out after walking a bit there for some reason. And for some reason there are armed police guarding the entrance to the actual Mosque doors. At least when I was there.
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              • #27
                Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

                Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
                The situation is this: as long as Armenia tolerates scum like Dodi Gago, and scum like the self-seeking neo-fascistic clergy, and has scum like Armanen and the gang of self-elected "Superior Armenians" to support them, Armenia is heading towards oblivion.
                I don't see how Armenia's government is any more/less corrupt than most of it's neighbors, the main reason for economic under-performance in Armenia is a lack of trade routes and natural resources like oil or gas. As far as long term economic prospects are concerned however, some economists are already speculating about the end of the Azeri gas and oil boom i.e. the Aliyev regime may find itself out of a job, there are already millions of Azeri's in poverty; like those thousands of war refugees they keep in perpetual poverty and feed with propaganda and hatred.

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                • #28
                  Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

                  Originally posted by hipeter924 View Post
                  I don't see how Armenia's government is any more/less corrupt than most of it's neighbors
                  Don't you get tired of that "I might be smelly, but my neighbours also stink - so why should I wash!" excuse?
                  Last edited by bell-the-cat; 09-20-2012, 06:30 AM.
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                  • #29
                    Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

                    Originally posted by Mos View Post
                    And for some reason there are armed police guarding the entrance to the actual Mosque doors. At least when I was there.
                    Maybe there were some Iranian bigwigs (or bigturbans ) paying a visit to the mosque to pray.
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                    • #30
                      Re: Yerevan's famous covered market demolished

                      Originally posted by bell-the-cat View Post
                      Maybe there were some Iranian bigwigs (or bigturbans ) paying a visit to the mosque to pray.
                      Possibly. Does anyone know if the Blue Mosque plays the Azan during all the prayer times?
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