New information about Raffi Hovhannisyan’s Moscow visit
A short while ago, Styopa Safaryan, the secretary general of the Heritage Party, communicated new information to www.aravot.am about Raffi Hovhannisyan’s leaving for Moscow today. It turns out that Raffi Hovhannisyan left for Moscow not on his own initiative, but at the invitation of Moscow itself. In response to our question whether he would meet with Vladimir Putin or Medvedev, Styopa Safaryan said: “I don’t have information about the format of the meeting; I just know that those are planned meetings. It was obvious at the very beginning of the rally that he had planned such a meeting.” We cleared up whether Vladimir Putin or Medvedev would receive him, however, or he had just gone and didn’t know what would happen, Styopa Safaryan assured that Raffi Hovhannisyan couldn’t have plunged into such adventures. “Before the presidential election, he had also received an invitation from the Elysée Palace and had gone there; he hasn’t left for either France or Russia on his own initiative. I know one thing; this meeting in Moscow is no
accident, it is not on his own initiative. I know that they came to meet with him in advance. I assume it was also related to bringing the invitation and handing it over to him. I can be sure that it was an invitation that was handed over.” We inquired what “I am going to bring the people’s victory from Putin” meant, Styopa Safaryan explained: “Raffi is, as it were, a fan of symbolism, folks.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
