evidence: Except for so many building sites in Yerevan, there is no place that shows some sign of economic revival in Armenia more than the republic's primary tourist destination, the jewel of the country, and certainly of the Gegharkunik province. [...] On the northwestern edge of Gegharkunik province, progress has meant isolation for the villages of Tsovaghyugh and Semyenovka. [...] Gegharkunik, like all Armenian regions these days, tries to revive and restore what they once had, a secure life. But, just as individual republics now struggle, the breakup of the centralized economy and industry of the Soviet regime resulted in an inability of separate regions to survive alone.