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Maya Adivi
Maya Adivi is an Israeli-born Torontonian who has been living in Armenia for the last two years. She has worked for many years in the beauty industry, as a writer, makeup artist, and cosmetologist, but she also has a keen interest in politics, sociology, and social change. If you manage to find her when she’s not working, she’ll probably be engaging in fierce debate or strumming her ukulele.
Latest posts by Maya Adivi (see all)
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- Young Filmmakers in Vanadzor Ask, ‘Where Are We Going?’ - November 17, 2017
The filmmaker is absolutely right. It has become a dead city. The third city of Armenia which during the Soviet period flourished by its chemical and mechanical companies are silent, a ghost town. I visited last year with a guide employed by one of the leading banks and who goes during the weekends to Kirovagan, now Vanatsor, her home town.
Thank you for such an article. Knowing some facts about Vanadzor through this article was very depressing, but I wish great success for poghosyan in the field of filmmaking.
Vanadzor was built by the Soviet Union and its economy served the Soviet Union. It’s demise is therefore the result of the Soviet Union’s collapse. The Soviet Union should have not fallen, it should have been modernized. Example: Look at China and Vietnam.
That said: Vanadzor today is a bastion of Western funded activists and spies, and this article, including the documentary it refers, to is a testimony to it.
So sad that independence has failed to improve life for those in Vanadzor.