RE: The United Nations said no fun allowed

Yeah haha, Armenia is a bit behind in that sense. It's still very strict. Even the metro station is a huge no. Do it and you get detained and your phone searched. Georgia was similar but way more relaxed but I think that's also because it has a much higher tourist count where people are endlessly flocking to it with big cameras. Armenia is still barely discovered. Summer has a lot of those tourist photographers but again it's still a bit weird about people photographing things.

I think it's why that industry itself is also so thin here. It's a bit of a hostile environment to be a photographer, and there are no real street photographers here which capture the people, because that will instantly get you punched or again detained if someone reports you. The people here just aren't that used to photography as a hobby. They see Chinese tourists with cameras in their groups. But a rogue person running around with a camera? Now that's suspicious!