I've been needing to watch this! I did a bit of research before going there, it was truly fascinating.
Only a rich and developed country can maintain such a technical miracle as this telescope.
I have the belief that Armenia is developed and rich enough to maintain it. My time there didn't speak of intense poverty and struggle, but more the case of corruption. It has the funds to create and maintain, it's just those funds are clearly not going into creating and maintaining. Not even in the case of preservation, but in the case of infrastructure in general.