Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, of course, paid his dues in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, but that doesn’t mean at all that he’s worthy of being a president, said popular Armenian singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan at a press conference in Yerevan today, adding that “the Russians appointed [Serzh Sargsyan] as president.”<\/p>\n
“Russia knows well, who to put [“appoint”] and with whose hand to damn us. Russian intelligence was controlling the entire war and he is their guy, their reliable man. If any general is [out of line], shoots in a restaurant, curses, he’s not justified by the fact that he fought in the war,” said Hakhverdyan, confessing that he doesn’t envy Serzh Sargsyan in this situation.<\/p>\n
“One man says that we have to begin on a blank page, let him start with himself [first]. Every average citizen knows that that man has houses, businesses in America, he’s acquired a three-storey building on Tumanyan [Street] here, his family lives there \u2014 is there such disgrace as this? Our people, starving, are dying, you’re constructing buildings, you’re establishing such businesses abroad. Why are our people silent, I don’t understand, what are they going to kill us, let them kill us, what’s the big deal, man only dies once,” said the singer.<\/p>\n
According to Hakhverdyan, after Serzh Sargsyan was sworn in as president, the Armenian public became more dismal.<\/p>\n
“Now we’re in more of a colorless situation, more so than during the days of [former president Robert] Kocharian, than the days of [first president of the Republic of Armenia] Levon [Ter-Petrossian],” he said and recalling Lenin, said: “If it’s not possible to do anything through peaceful revolution, then comes terror. Terrorism is a consequence, not a reason.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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