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YEREVAN'S CAPITAL CHANGES: THE CHALLENGE OF GROWTH IN A CITY OF AGES
by John Hughes
At the top of the roundabout where Nalbandian Street completes Sahkharov Square in Yerevan, as recently as five years ago the neediest of the city met to receive welfare flour through a dusty warehouse door on the side of the State Fund of Social Insurance. Lines formed, names were called, vouchers were collected. And if there was embarrassment in taking a handout, shame was suppressed by necessity.