Burglar

There seems to be a rash of burglaries in Yerevan, 2 friends were hit yesterday while they were out of their homes. The locks were busted and cash, and one or two smaller more valuable items were taken. I was just telling one of the friends who got burgled how safe I feel here, and although this is still not a physical threat, it is still really disturbing... the police say it is going on with others too, not just a couple of Diasporans, so it appears to be a coincidence that they were both hit within 24hrs.

So when the police were at my friends apartment, her elderly landlord came as well. The place was a mess as they had pulled things out of drawers, etc. The conversation was all in Armenian, and at one point my friend mentioned that the laptop being taken was one thing, but the "files inside it" were really important. The landlord told her she should look around on the floor, maybe the files had fallen out of the laptop and were among the mess...