Churches turned into lumber-rooms - premier 

ArmInfo."I officially declare that all our churches have been turned into Lumber-rooms," Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a government meeting on May 29.

According to him, Pashinyan came to this conclusion "after lighting  candles in churches and temples." After that, he asked the Minister  of Education, Science, Culture and Sports "whether the task is being  set for the sanitary condition of this historical and cultural  monument, which is not managed by the state or a state non-profit  organization."

"You can see in churches what you have that is most unnecessary - an  extra marble slab, bags of cement, pieces of old rusty reinforcement.  Why does a person go to church? He goes in to come into contact with  something spiritual. And suddenly you go in and see that garbage is  scattered in one place, someone's clothes, shoes are somewhere there,  someone put their bed," he noted.

He was outraged by .

The Prime Minister demanded that the head of the Ministry of  Education and Science of the Russian Federation introduce the  corresponding standards in churches, since .