We asked Samvel Baglaryan, President of Tavush Regional Division of the Writers’ Union of Armenia, Chief of Noyemberyan Territorian Agency of Social Service, about distortion of Yerevan Indoor market building of cultural monument by NA MP Samvel Alexanyan and about the riots of civilian activists against it. He said,- “If I were in Yerevan, I would definitely stand next to the protesters … Why are they protesting for they demand justice, it is not a protest, they demand justice. I totally do not discredit, to whom they give it, to Samvel or Lfik, these names have zero meaning for me. The important thing is that they gives a historical value, one of the wonderful pages of history. They are giving this. The important thing is that Yerevan very intensely, very quickly has started to lose its face. Yerevan in not Yerevan. Didn’t you see that the so-called North Avenue is not decent to Yerevan, it didn’t work. North, south or something else, it didn’t become Yerevan, it does not fit Yerevan. I’m an architect, first, I do not like this style of architecture, I like the national, secondly, good or bad, at least it is not of Yerevan, it does not fit Yerevan, it does not coalesce. In every corner of the world, on seeing the picture of the market, its marvelous metal ornaments, facade, I was already feeling better, it was Armenian. Whatever he want to build there, they cannot replace.”
Voskan SARGSYAN
