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VARDAN DEVRIKYAN: "FOREIGN POWERS" BEHIND ATTACK ON HAYRIKYAN
Narek Aleksanyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/22914/vardan-devrikyan-foreign-powers-behind-attack-on-hayrikyan.html
16:01, February 1, 2013
Vardan Devrikyan, Deputy Director of the Literature Institute in
Armenia, adds his name to the list of public figures who believes that
"foreign powers" are behind yesterday's assassination attempt of
presidential candidate Paryur Hayrikian.
Devrikyan told reporters today in Yerevan that the western media has
covered the incident as some type of crisis event.
Devrikyan suggested that the other candidates be provided with bodyguards.
He said that the fee for registering as a presidential candidate
should be increased to a minimum of 20 million AMD ($49,000), arguing
that as it stands now any Tom, Dick or Harry can get in the race.
Devrikyan mocked presidential candidate Andrias Ghukasyan, now on
hunger strike at the National Academy of Sciences, and said that the
press were wrong to cover him so extensively and make him out as a
leading contender.
"I am getting 10-20 telephone calls a day asking who that candidate
is. God forbid something happens to him as well. They'll say that
another leading presidential candidate has been attacked as well."
Narek Aleksanyan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/22914/vardan-devrikyan-foreign-powers-behind-attack-on-hayrikyan.html
16:01, February 1, 2013
Vardan Devrikyan, Deputy Director of the Literature Institute in
Armenia, adds his name to the list of public figures who believes that
"foreign powers" are behind yesterday's assassination attempt of
presidential candidate Paryur Hayrikian.
Devrikyan told reporters today in Yerevan that the western media has
covered the incident as some type of crisis event.
Devrikyan suggested that the other candidates be provided with bodyguards.
He said that the fee for registering as a presidential candidate
should be increased to a minimum of 20 million AMD ($49,000), arguing
that as it stands now any Tom, Dick or Harry can get in the race.
Devrikyan mocked presidential candidate Andrias Ghukasyan, now on
hunger strike at the National Academy of Sciences, and said that the
press were wrong to cover him so extensively and make him out as a
leading contender.
"I am getting 10-20 telephone calls a day asking who that candidate
is. God forbid something happens to him as well. They'll say that
another leading presidential candidate has been attacked as well."