Old and New Yerevan

[TomServo]

Interesting article.

[bell-the-cat]

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Interesting article.

Horrific.

I remember walking past that "officers club" building last summer.
In their blind lust for destruction Yerevan Armenians seem to be out-Turking the Turks.

[Anonymouse]

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Oh well. It has been 18 years since I have seen Armenia and that was with the eyes of a 6 or 7 year old. Much has changed for me either way this makes no difference.

[Quarteria]

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The hotel at which I was staying was across the way from a building with Cyrillic letters on top. I asked my Great Grandma what it said and she said that it said the building is under Soviet controll (this was in '96/'97). Does anybody know the building of which I am talking and is that what it actually said? I thought it was kind of obnoxious to still be up there at that time...

[tunot]

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Horrific.

I remember walking past that "officers club" building last summer.
In their blind lust for destruction Yerevan Armenians seem to be out-Turking the Turks.

It's never good, is it?

FYI: That "blind destruction", which I don't think is so blind (although in all reorganizations some things will have unfortunate fates), has an aim, namely to attract business and tourism to a country that has little other resources than that. Armenia can't exactly sell oil, can it?

[Anonymouse]

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It's never good, is it?

FYI: That "blind destruction", which I don't think is so blind (although in all reorganizations some things will have unfortunate fates), has an aim, namely to attract business and tourism to a country that has little other resources than that. Armenia can't exactly sell oil, can it?

Precisely.

The Armenian economy needs to evolve and so does the society as it develops. Everyone is always harping on privatization, but so what? It's developing Armenia. The reason is because people are growing, and why not greet that?

If it were up to everyone's personal whims of what should or shouldn't stay, everyone would pretty much have every building that is 'dear' to them stay erect and not destroyed. If everyone had their way, we may as well have no development at all and just live in a static age with static architecture and economy. But that is not the way it is. If it's other peoples possessions now, they will do with it what they please. If you don't like it, I suggest you buy it and keep it erected as long as you wish.

[EMRE]

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Precisely.

The Armenian economy needs to evolve and so does the society as it develops. Everyone is always harping on privatization, but so what? It's developing Armenia. The reason is because people are growing, and why not greet that?

If it were up to everyone's personal whims of what should or shouldn't stay, everyone would pretty much have every building that is 'dear' to them stay erect and not destroyed. If everyone had their way, we may as well have no development at all and just live in a static age with static architecture and economy. But that is not the way it is. If it's other peoples possessions now, they will do with it what they please. If you don't like it, I suggest you buy it and keep it erected as long as you wish.

dear anonymous,,I hear some stories from azeris.armenian people are starving to death in yerevan and in other armenian cities.Iknow that armenia has no oil wells natural resources,gas,tourizm and tax revenue.is it true?armenia is very poor country????and I heard armenian total income is equal to azerbaijan*s defence budget..is it true???at least azerbaijan has oil wells and oil revenue.your enemy is much stronger than armenia.how can armenia sustain and wage war against azerbaijan on account of karabagh problem.can you illuminate me????

sincerely yours.

[bell-the-cat]

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The hotel at which I was staying was across the way from a building with Cyrillic letters on top. I asked my Great Grandma what it said and she said that it said the building is under Soviet controll (this was in '96/'97). Does anybody know the building of which I am talking and is that what it actually said? I thought it was kind of obnoxious to still be up there at that time...

You haven't even got a quarter of the sense you were born with.

Mayor of Mush was walking down a street in his town, when, across the way he noticed a building with Armenian letters on it. Isn't it kind of obnoxious for that to be still up there at this time? he comments. A few days later it was gone, chipped off.

[tunot]

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dear anonymous,,I hear some stories from azeris.armenian people are starving to death in yerevan and in other armenian cities.Iknow that armenia has no oil wells natural resources,gas,tourizm and tax revenue.is it true?armenia is very poor country????and I heard armenian total income is equal to azerbaijan*s defence budget..is it true???at least azerbaijan has oil wells and oil revenue.your enemy is much stronger than armenia.how can armenia sustain and wage war against azerbaijan on account of karabagh problem.can you illuminate me????

sincerely yours.

Perhaps you should try visiting Armenia before listening to Azeri propaganda. Armenians are living better today than they have in the last fifteen years. There is much hope for a better future, despite all the corruption, etc. Yes, there are Armenians who are starving to death, but there are more Turks starving to death in Turkey than there are Armenians starving to death in Armenia, for the simple reason that there are more Turks in Turkey than there are Armenians in Armenia. One could say the same about Azerbaijan.

As for resources, it's all a matter of time, if people like bell-the-cat would for once allow the PEOPLE to survive instead of the dilapidated buildings that are better off gone than preserved, for the sake of the future of the PEOPLE. As if old Soviet-style apartment buildings that he himself would never choose to live in are good enough for those sub-human Armenians of Yerevan who dare to improve their standard of LIVING by destroying buildings that are going to collapse and cost the LIVES of many, many PEOPLE anyway.

[TomServo]

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EMRE, if you're so concerned about Armenia's economy, perhaps you should get your country to open the border.

I had no idea Azeris were so well off...