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During today’s discussion on the topic of “When will the process of construction be regulated in the center of Yerevan?” held in Media Center Mark Grigoryan, reporter and author of “Unknown Yerevan” TV program, asked Ruzan Alaverdyan, Chief Adviser to the Head of State Committee for Urban Planning, who are to blame for demolishing the building of the printing house.

“We have the right to know who are to pin blame on. Consider this as a rhetorical question or an announcement,” Grigoryan said.

He believes that the cause of the changes made in the center of Yerevan is the deeply rooted corruption in the country.

“We are all human beings who might be afraid to voice the issue publically. Eventually only I, among the people of this room, have survived an attempted murder which still remains undiscovered. Thus I am afraid to speak about corruption as well. But if we all refrain from speaking about it the corruption will continue to rule. We have the right to know the names of the owners of all the lands and structures in the city, the way they have been privatized and what money has been used,” the speaker noted.

Turning to the explosion of Yerevan's first printing house, Mark Grigoryan mentioned that some sources named one of the former mayors as the owner of the building.
“How is it possible that the property of one of the former mayors has not been included in the list of historical values? We are talking about the political aspect of the issue, we override corruption. I think it is high time speaking about the fact how the corruption in Armenia devours Yerevan,” he said.

According to Grigoryan taking such building under the state protection cannot save them as there is the expression of primary interest which does not care about the monuments.