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Armenia has Serzh Sargsyan, it doesn’t have a president; it has Tigran Sargsyan, it doesn’t have a prime minister; it has Alik Sargsyan, it doesn’t have a police chief. This is the kind of incomprehensible situation our country finds itself in, say New Times party leader Aram Karapetyan at a press conference in Yerevan today.
“The system, as such, doesn’t work. It’s an incomprehensible situation: Serzh Sargsyan says, what Gagik Beglaryan did is unacceptable, Alik Sargsyan says, there’s no claim, no criminal case will be launched. From this it can be confirmed that this, of course, was PR, Mikael Minasyan’s successful PR,” he said, referring to recent incidents surrounding former Yerevan mayor Gagik Beglaryan.
Karapetyan also considers the situation to be “anti-PR” organized by Mikael Minasyan and explains why:
“Why now? At this very moment, when WikiLeaks published a story that arms were sold in 2003 — the anti-PR began: everything got mixed up, they took him out, did this, did that [referring to numerous resignations of state officials in a short period of time] and people forgot that WikiLeaks issued a serious accusation at Armenia’s authorities.”
The New Times leader noticed a direct link between former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who was dismissed from his earlier this year, and Beglaryan.
“After Luzhkov, Gagik Beglaryan, as a representative of the Luzhkovian team, was under attack. For Serzh Sargsyan, Gagik Beglaryan was that which Luzhkov was for [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev. Of course, it was a bit difficult to work with the Luzhkovian Beglaryan,” said Karapetyan.