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    LET'S MAKE DOLPHINARIUM POPULAR!

    ArmInfo
    2010-09-29 20:12:00

    ArmInfo. No sooner had Armenian ecologists expressed discontent about
    the construction of a dolphinarium in Yerevan than the Municipality of
    Yerevan started calming people down with their promises to "improve"
    the territory.

    According to an old tradition, the Municipality's press release focuses
    on the desperate state of one more park in Yerevan, this time, the
    Park after Komitas, where actually the dolphinarium will be built.

    The Municipality enumerates all the shortcomings and then expresses
    its desire to improve the green zone of the park by launching
    new construction - a method, the residents of Yerevan are already
    well-aware of. Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan says that a new
    irrigation and illumination system, as well as roundabouts will be
    installed in the park. Moreover, the parking area has already been
    built, which is so characteristic of the Municipality that is very much
    concerned with reduction of green zones. The residents of Yerevan are
    sad. By their bitter experience they already know that with the word
    "improvement" the Municipality of Yerevan conceals destruction of
    green territories in favor of easy profits from cafes and restaurants.

    One example is the Students Park, a green area turned by Beglaryan
    into a concrete desert. Beglaryan's reason was allegedly to improve
    the territory near the Viktor Hambartsumyan Monument. As a result,
    the monument has found itself cramped between two ugly cafe-like
    buildings with no single lawn left nearby.

    The public protest has grown into a lawsuit but Beglaryan is not
    afraid. Now that he has "cultivated" the Students Park he has rushed
    to "improve" the Komitas Park. We already know what this improvement
    will end in: cut trees and construction mud.

    By the way, the dolphinarium is said to be the project of Ex Mayor
    of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan, which means that all attempts to defend
    the green area are doomed to failure.




    From: A. Papazian
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