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ARMENIAN ARTISTS URGED NOT TO SELL OUT TO POLITICIANS, NOT TO SING AND DANCE FOR THEIR ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
epress.am
01.18.2012
The only way to save the country is through revolution, said
singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan, speaking to journalists in the
Armenian capital today about the upcoming elections and the political
situation in general. The other speaker at today's press conference,
actor Sergei Danielyan (pictured), finds that the right move would
be to boycott the elections altogether.
"To speak about politics, you'd have to bring a sociologist - to
say how many people have left Armenia, how many people come and go
[from the country], how many dead bodies they bring back from Russia,
from xenophobia no doubt. You'd have to bring an ecologist - to say
what cutting down 400 hectares of forest in Teghut will give us, what
they'll do with the scrap heap built in its place. In exploiting any
mine in the world, 50% has to belong to the state, but in our country
only 20% is given to the state; that is, they're going to reap gross
profits. More unbearable is the matter of freedom of speech - even
if we're speaking freely, nothing changes," said Hakhverdyan.
Danielyan, in turn, appealed to Armenian artists with a call not to
participate in election campaigns ahead of the elections.
"Elections are approaching; soon they [i.e. politicians] will being
to prey upon artists. I advise that no matter how much money is
offered, not to back any political figure, not to sing and dance
for their campaigns. That which a politician does is temporary,
it's something akin to toilet paper, while art is a more constant
value. Don't discredit or support this or that person," he said.
Hakhverdyan also provided some advice of his own: "Please, don't
elect anyone out of the three presidents [Serzh Sargsyan, Levon
Ter-Petrossian or Robert Kocharian]. Don't elect [them] if you care
about this country's future."
From: Baghdasarian
epress.am
01.18.2012
The only way to save the country is through revolution, said
singer-songwriter Ruben Hakhverdyan, speaking to journalists in the
Armenian capital today about the upcoming elections and the political
situation in general. The other speaker at today's press conference,
actor Sergei Danielyan (pictured), finds that the right move would
be to boycott the elections altogether.
"To speak about politics, you'd have to bring a sociologist - to
say how many people have left Armenia, how many people come and go
[from the country], how many dead bodies they bring back from Russia,
from xenophobia no doubt. You'd have to bring an ecologist - to say
what cutting down 400 hectares of forest in Teghut will give us, what
they'll do with the scrap heap built in its place. In exploiting any
mine in the world, 50% has to belong to the state, but in our country
only 20% is given to the state; that is, they're going to reap gross
profits. More unbearable is the matter of freedom of speech - even
if we're speaking freely, nothing changes," said Hakhverdyan.
Danielyan, in turn, appealed to Armenian artists with a call not to
participate in election campaigns ahead of the elections.
"Elections are approaching; soon they [i.e. politicians] will being
to prey upon artists. I advise that no matter how much money is
offered, not to back any political figure, not to sing and dance
for their campaigns. That which a politician does is temporary,
it's something akin to toilet paper, while art is a more constant
value. Don't discredit or support this or that person," he said.
Hakhverdyan also provided some advice of his own: "Please, don't
elect anyone out of the three presidents [Serzh Sargsyan, Levon
Ter-Petrossian or Robert Kocharian]. Don't elect [them] if you care
about this country's future."
From: Baghdasarian