Armenia is now being robbed of its precious treasures of art and culture, a criminologist has said, commenting on recent thefts of valuable books and canvasses.
“That’s a theft of a nationwide significance, with each side trying to find excuses of its own,” Sergey Galoyan told reporters on Saturday, promising to unveil individual names in the near future.
According to him, the recent theft of highly valuable books from two libraries of Armenia was a crime in the strictest sense of the word. “And who said what books had been taken? No one was informed of anything,” he said.
Galoyan further noted that valuable canvasses by Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, a Soviet Armenian artist and graphic designer , were also stolen recently. The criminologist promised to publicize more details in this connection too.