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ARMENIAN SINGER ENTERED POLITICS TO SECURE CULTURE MINISTER PORTFOLIO: OPINION
epress.am
03.21.2012
Singer Shushan Petrosyan, who will be contesting a parliamentary
seat on the ruling Republican Party of Armenia's (HHK) ticket, aims
to take the place of Armenia's Minister of Culture, composer and
musician Vahan Artsruni told reporters in Yerevan earlier today.
"Shushan has clearly formulated her goals: she is preparing to battle,
to fight. Sitting on that seat, Shushan certainly has a clearer picture
on the art world, beginning from visual art to the theatrical arts,
and she is definitely closer to this sector," he said.
The fellow artist also pointed to the singer's interior motives. "From
what I understand, Shushan shares HHK's ideology, and I respect
conceptual people, those artists who have ideas and serve them. In
that case, their actions as citizens are justified."
Another speaker at the press conference, jazz musician Armen Tutunjyan
(Chico), mentioned that there have been artists in Armenia's parliament
in the past, but nothing has changed over the years.
"This isn't the first case; in the past too we had Robert Amirkhanyan
and other intellectuals, and why does it seem that tomorrow Shushan
Petrosyan will come along and everything will change?" he asked.
According to singer-songwriter Artavazd Bayatyan, those who enter
politics are those who have failed in other endeavors. "This is a
very common practice around the world. If we trace the biographies
of all reputable politicians, then we will see that they had other
professions, then they entered politics. They have a rush to dominate,
but a good artist is himself already a good ruler [in his profession]
and has no issues."
epress.am
03.21.2012
Singer Shushan Petrosyan, who will be contesting a parliamentary
seat on the ruling Republican Party of Armenia's (HHK) ticket, aims
to take the place of Armenia's Minister of Culture, composer and
musician Vahan Artsruni told reporters in Yerevan earlier today.
"Shushan has clearly formulated her goals: she is preparing to battle,
to fight. Sitting on that seat, Shushan certainly has a clearer picture
on the art world, beginning from visual art to the theatrical arts,
and she is definitely closer to this sector," he said.
The fellow artist also pointed to the singer's interior motives. "From
what I understand, Shushan shares HHK's ideology, and I respect
conceptual people, those artists who have ideas and serve them. In
that case, their actions as citizens are justified."
Another speaker at the press conference, jazz musician Armen Tutunjyan
(Chico), mentioned that there have been artists in Armenia's parliament
in the past, but nothing has changed over the years.
"This isn't the first case; in the past too we had Robert Amirkhanyan
and other intellectuals, and why does it seem that tomorrow Shushan
Petrosyan will come along and everything will change?" he asked.
According to singer-songwriter Artavazd Bayatyan, those who enter
politics are those who have failed in other endeavors. "This is a
very common practice around the world. If we trace the biographies
of all reputable politicians, then we will see that they had other
professions, then they entered politics. They have a rush to dominate,
but a good artist is himself already a good ruler [in his profession]
and has no issues."