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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
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