2023-05-17 14:02:29
Putin critics help an impoverished country to boom
Armenia was poor and somehow unsexy – until tens of thousands of Russians came. They brought money and the greed for a new, free life. The country on the Caucasus is alive.
A meeting place for Russians from the very beginning: Café Tuf in Yerevan.
Photo: Biayna Mahari
The stretcher on which Russia’s president fought and lost stands in a windowless props room. A pile of white sheets lies on the stretcher, plastic chairs have been pushed under the frame. Next to it hang coats, jackets, shirts, whatever is needed on a theater stage. However, goodness knows it was not easy for Alexei Gailit to find a couch on which the president’s life was at stake.
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