Yerevan Mayor against street renaming

Emil Lazarian 2017
  • 14:36 | August 30,2017 | Social
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Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan would not agree to renaming streets in the Armenian capital that still bear the names of Soviet-era figures. The proposal to rename these streets was made by the opposition Yelk alliance earlier this month.

Margaryan says ‘Yerevan is a growing city and we shall have new streets which will be named after heroes proposed by the Yelk faction.’

Talking to journalists on Wednesday, Taron Margaryan said they would soon start discussions and consider the proposal but he personally prefers ‘not to touch the history.’

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS