According to the statement gotten by Aravot.am from the CIS Youth Council, a roundtable meeting was held in the Yerevan Putin Club on the topic The Prospect of the Eurasian Union in the Perception of the Armenian Youth and “representatives of the Armenian youth organizations and movements, as well as members of the Putin Club participated in the discussion. The gathered people talked about ways of cooperation and the reappraisal of values that has taken place in the post-Soviet countries in the last decade.” It was also mentioned that Andranik Nikoghosyan himself addressed the participants of the roundtable meeting with a video statement and said, “The time has come for the CIS countries to collect stones.” Taking into consideration the significance of the topic discussed at the roundtable meeting, Aravot.am had decided to cover the event that should have taken place at the Putin Club itself, 6 Zakyan Street, according to the statement.
In the photos you see the building at that address, where a few companies are located – Magnolia Travel Agency, Fine Computer Company, as well as the Bible Society of Armenia. It turns out that people have knocked on the doors of these companies for a few days already and have asked about the Putin Club, about which they have heard neither hide nor hair and have no idea at all.
According to a worker at the Fine Computer Company, “We heard that they had opened the Putin Club here, at first they said 6 Zakyan Street, then they said 6/1 Zakyan Street and then 6/36 Zakyan Street, but we don’t know where it is. This is the 6 Zakyan Street address, as you see, there is no Putin Club here. We constantly hear of that club, but we don’t know its location.” The Bible Society of Armenia also said that they had been in that building for 10 years already and there was no such club.
We knocked on the doors of all residents in turn and inquired. All of them confusedly said, “What Putin Club? What are you talking about?” and laughed.
Furthermore, some of the residents started to seek for “Putin’s supporters” in their building, they remembered that one of their neighbors was “pro-Russian” and could have rented out his apartment, but all efforts were in vain.
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
