 Complete the following phrase:  Following independence, Tjeknavorian served on the committee to reinstate the pre-communist Armenian flag and the national coat-of-arms. He was especially influential in the adoption of the national anthem, Mer Hayrenik Our Fatherland, for which he rewrote the words for the first stanza. Tjeknavorian also renamed the two major avenues of Yerevan during last year of the Soviet period, from Lenin and Red Army to Mesrop Mashtots creator of the Armenian alphabet in 451 and Gregory the Illuminator founder of the Armenian church in 301 AD respectively. The renaming reflected his philosophy of Faith and Culture as the twin foundations upon which the Armenian nation must be re-built. During the crippling energy blockade between 1992 and 1995 - a result of the 