Vartan Matiossian
According to Gayane Abrahamian's report on EurasiaNet.org (September 27, 2012), "Experts claim that almost 50 percent of the 24,000 religious monuments in Armenia are in urgent need of repair, and that around 30 percent are on the verge of collapse." Claims of national pride for being the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion are worth nothing when the symbols of that pride are being disregarded, to put it mildly.
