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POLITICIAN SEES PARALLELS BETWEEN RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE MIKHAIL PROKHOROV, ARMENIA'S GAGIK TSARUKYAN
epress.am
12.16.2011
Armenian authorities, in a moral sense, are doing something very
wrong, but they're doing that which is the law of power, said New
Times party leader Aram Karapetyan, today at a press conference in
the Armenian capital.
"The authorities say, you want to be opposition, go ahead, no problem,
withdraw from everything, become opposition and let them hit you with
shock too, get you hospitalized, come with 40 people and arrest you,
take you, shoot in the air - either like this or like that. Well
how did you imagine it - eat well, drink well, present well, have
a TV station, have ministers, have marzpets [regional governors],
have business opportunities, make use of government leverage and
along with this, be opposition?"
According to him, otherwise how could it have been discovered in one
day that three people on the Prosperous Armenia party ticket strolled
with drugs in their pockets.
To explain his argument, the Armenian party leader cited Russian
businessman Mikhail Prokhorov (considered to be opposition), who,
according to Karapetyan, cannot be considered a serious oppositionist.
"Prokhorov asked the Kremlin for no more than 5 days to isolate his
Right Cause party. Any oligarch, who would dare to go against the
authorities, would be punished with the most severe measures applied
by the authorities; thus, no one would have the courage to make that
move," he said.
Speaking about "the Prokhorov equivalent," Armenian oligarch,
Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan (pictured), Karapetyan
assured, "If Gagik Tsarukyan were to become opposition, the Armenian
authorities would seize the Prosperous Armenia party from him in one
to two days, whereas the Kremlin did this in five days."
epress.am
12.16.2011
Armenian authorities, in a moral sense, are doing something very
wrong, but they're doing that which is the law of power, said New
Times party leader Aram Karapetyan, today at a press conference in
the Armenian capital.
"The authorities say, you want to be opposition, go ahead, no problem,
withdraw from everything, become opposition and let them hit you with
shock too, get you hospitalized, come with 40 people and arrest you,
take you, shoot in the air - either like this or like that. Well
how did you imagine it - eat well, drink well, present well, have
a TV station, have ministers, have marzpets [regional governors],
have business opportunities, make use of government leverage and
along with this, be opposition?"
According to him, otherwise how could it have been discovered in one
day that three people on the Prosperous Armenia party ticket strolled
with drugs in their pockets.
To explain his argument, the Armenian party leader cited Russian
businessman Mikhail Prokhorov (considered to be opposition), who,
according to Karapetyan, cannot be considered a serious oppositionist.
"Prokhorov asked the Kremlin for no more than 5 days to isolate his
Right Cause party. Any oligarch, who would dare to go against the
authorities, would be punished with the most severe measures applied
by the authorities; thus, no one would have the courage to make that
move," he said.
Speaking about "the Prokhorov equivalent," Armenian oligarch,
Prosperous Armenia party leader Gagik Tsarukyan (pictured), Karapetyan
assured, "If Gagik Tsarukyan were to become opposition, the Armenian
authorities would seize the Prosperous Armenia party from him in one
to two days, whereas the Kremlin did this in five days."