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“It is a gift,” said our taxi driver.
“Of course.”
“This is Armenia.”
It wasn’t as if he didn’t need the fare. Like nearly all Yerevan cabs, his windscreen had a large crack up its centre – a product of the many unfinished roads in the residential areas of the capital. But he was adamant, even though he’d picked us up from Lumen 1936, a stylish café…

