YEREVAN, May 11 (Noyan Tapan). The Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs has become obsolete long ago and is an unnecessary structure. Hakob Ghazanchian, Artistic Director of Yerevan Theatre of Young Spectator, expressed such opinion in his interview to a Noyan Tapan correspondent. According to him, today the Ministry has no levers of influence on the creative work of the theatres or other cultural institutions. "This structure only appoints or dismisses directors, for which it's unnecessary to have such inflated organs," H.Ghazanchian said. The Artistic Director of the Theatre of Young Spectator said that it's already several years that the theatre is deprived of state grant, the Ministry considered that the Yerevan Mayor's Office should do this and the latter supposed that this should be done by the Ministry. As a result, the theatre was deprived of state financing while the expenditures on the maintenance of the theatre building are large and the prices for tickets are lower than in other theatres subject to the Ministry. According to H.Ghazanchian, the Ministry pays for the expenditures of boiler-houses of all theatres except the Theatre of Young Spectator. The theatre carries out payments for electricity at the expense of miserable revenues from the ticket sale. Besides, the theatre pays the VAT and income tax from the sums recieved from the ticket sale. By the way, the telephones of the theatre are at present disconnected because of debts. According to H.Ghazancian, there are theatres that exist at the expense of the resources allocated by the state, without any performances, and instead of creation they are engaged in obtaining money. He considers that it's impossible to carry out new stagings in such conditions. "A desperate situation was established and I already seriously think about leaving the theatre," the Artistic Director of the Theatre of Young Spectator said.

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