The Djrahovit Library Is a Soviet Holdover: Poetry Dedicated to Papa Lenin Doesn't Attract Young Readers

You don't need to know Armenian or to read Armenian books to help the library of Djrahovit or any other village library in Armenia. You just need to have some spare money and spend it in some of the bookstores of Yerevan to buy some children or youth books and donate them. In the meantime, perhaps a miracle will happen and the Ministry of Culture will revise its priorities, and the village libraries of Armenia will be able to renew themselves.

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Reading Books is Fundamental

The old adage says that Armenian people do not read. Moreover, in the past ninety years, books in the Diaspora have been published in editions between 200 and 2,000 copies. The same has happened in Armenia after independence. We are "happy" to report that we are not alone, according to an article by Charles M. Blow with the abovementioned title, of which we give the following excerpt: