Daily claims that Russian-Armenian businessmen warned against investing in homeland
04.09.2018,
12:02
An Armenian newspaper ‘Iravunk’ (Law) questions Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s words that there are no problems in the Armenian-Russian relations and that they will only improve.
YEREVAN, September 4. /ARKA/. An Armenian newspaper ‘Iravunk’ (Law) questions Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s words that there are no problems in the Armenian-Russian relations and that they will only improve.
The newspaper cites its sources to claim that Russia’s elite is irked by the new Armenian government’s latest moves, such as prosecution of former president Robert Kocharyan and a former deputy defense minister Yuri Khachaturov, who holds currently the rotating position of secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Khachaturov was summoned to Armenia and was charged with ‘overthrowing constitutional order’ in the deadly post-election crackdown on the opposition following the contested 2008 presidential election. Later Khachaturov was released from custody on a bail and returned to Moscow to head the CSTO.
The daily claims also that Russia-based wealthy businessmen of Armenian origin were warned by top Russian officials against investing in their homeland. According to “Iravunk’ many Armenian businessmen living in Russia have frozen their projects in Armenia after the ‘velvet’ revolution. -0-
The newspaper cites its sources to claim that Russia’s elite is irked by the new Armenian government’s latest moves, such as prosecution of former president Robert Kocharyan and a former deputy defense minister Yuri Khachaturov, who holds currently the rotating position of secretary general of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Khachaturov was summoned to Armenia and was charged with ‘overthrowing constitutional order’ in the deadly post-election crackdown on the opposition following the contested 2008 presidential election. Later Khachaturov was released from custody on a bail and returned to Moscow to head the CSTO.
The daily claims also that Russia-based wealthy businessmen of Armenian origin were warned by top Russian officials against investing in their homeland. According to “Iravunk’ many Armenian businessmen living in Russia have frozen their projects in Armenia after the ‘velvet’ revolution. -0-
