it’s snowing but everything is fine… right?
January 23, 2006
This past weekend it snowed a bit in Yerevan, starting on Friday evening throughout the night and about 4-5 centimeters of snow was on the ground. As I’m writing this post now, it’s beginning to snow again and it just made me think of a news broadcast I viewed on the state news television station “H1″.
Frankly, the streets are not ploughed and it does not seem like the local authorities are taking quick action to clean the streets. Thus, cars are getting stuck trying to go up the slightest hill and the snow is continuing to accumulate. Yet, for some reason the news broadcast said something different. They showed images of Abovyan Street and how all of the snow on the streets were melted. The broadcaster was also explaining that it snowed in Yerevan (gosh, really?!) and that we should all be careful in this snow. But overall, the snow is melting quickly and all the streets are clean. I was simply shocked! What streets was she talking about? Because frankly all I saw were cars getting stuck on the road and I was walking around the streets around Baregamutiun metro the other day.
It’s snowing outside and everything is fine… just fine.
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Hasmik | January 24, 2006 at 5:56 am
Barekamutyun! Ah, lucky you Missy!
I live(d) close to Barekamutyun. =)
Which part of Yerevan do you reside in?
In regards to government fulfilling its civil duties… thumbs down. Hey, I heard the “corncob” building is entirely demolished. Do you know when they demolished it? I am so sad and upset that rich pig Eduard Avetisyan decided to demolish a historican landmark.
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Myrthe | January 24, 2006 at 7:09 am
The first five floors or so of the corncob are still there. Apparently, a hotel will be build at the site of the corncob. Don’t know if they are going to incorporate the remains of the corncob into the hotel or if they just stopped tearing the building down because winter arrived and if they will continue in the spring.
Apparently the hotel will be one of a major chain: Sheraton, Continental, I don’t remember exactly which one. As rumors have it around here, hotel Dvin on Proshian, will also be renovated start working again under the flag of one of the major hotel chains.
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Myrthe | January 24, 2006 at 8:08 am
That should read InterContinental, not Continental.
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Hasmik | January 25, 2006 at 1:43 am
Sheraton, InterContinental, how AUTHENTIC!
Thanks for filling me in, Myrthe.
5. Oneworld Multimedia :: Notes from the Armenian Blogosphere :: January :: 2006 | January 25, 2006 at 4:50 pm
[...] Meanwhile, Alex posts some photographs of the snow that has turned the Armenian capital into a winter wonderland. Truly, the scenes are very beautiful, although he says that problems with transportation have been inevitable. The same theme is picked up on over at Armyouth, a promising new blog run by a visiting Fullbright scholar Tamar Palandjian working at the Civil Society Institute in Yerevan. [...]
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hetq | January 26, 2006 at 8:04 am
Word was that the Dvin hotel is now the property of Russian singer Josef Kobzon, a man who the US Government refers to as the “Godfather of the Russian Mafia” and who has been barred from entry into the U.S.
As for the Palace of Youth, one of Yerevan’s most famous landmarks, when it was “privatized” (piratized?), assurances were given that it would not be destroyed. Of course, the government and the businessmen who make all these assurances lie whenever their mouths move.
http://armenianpages.com/ap-photos/2005/youth_palace/youth_palace.htm
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hetq | January 26, 2006 at 8:11 am
I forgot to say that the previous owner of the Dvin hotel was assassinated in Russia just before Kobzon was rumored to have bought it.
Hmmm…
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Onnik