“Ryzhkov responded adequately to the estimates given by the Armenian authorities pertaining to Crimea, because Crimea actually is not Artsakh. It is not Ryzhkov saying it, but me. I, personally, consider Ryzhkov’s words arrogant,” noted NKR MP Vahan Badasyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am, referring to inter-parliamentary Commission co-chair Nikolai Ryzhkov’s statements pertaining to Artsakh.
Note that at the 25th session of the Armenian-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Commission, co-chair Nikolai Ryzhkov, in response to the question of why RF can be a member of EaEU with non-recognized Crimea, whereas Armenia cannot do the same with Nagorno-Karabakh, said, “You compare Crimea to Karabakh… I understand that Karabakh is Armenia’s weak topic, so for us, but let me not agree pertaining to Crimea. Crimea is historically a Russian land, we were one common territory for ages, and whether it is our fault that Khrushchev had given it to Ukraine in drunk.”
“And who has said that Crimea was historically belonging to Russia, it has not been Russia’s historically. It’s a fact that no Russians live there but mostly Tatars and Armenians,” said Mr. Badasyan. Our interlocutor said that the mistakes allowed by our government authorities is that they welcomed the independence of Crimea. “There is no attribute in Crimea, because there was an annexation there rather than re-union. And Artsakh is the only one that has fulfilled its independence in accordance with the Constitution of the collapsing Soviet Union and in a language readable for the international community, in all the true paths. This is the legal side of the issue.”
According to Mr. Badasyan, the moral and historical side of the question is that the evidences and excavations by all international states indicate that Artsakh is Armenia. “Ryzhkov’s arrogant behavior means that in case of the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union, the same arrogance will exist in all directions.” Vahan Badasyan remembers, “The times when Russians left Armenia, at that time, Armenians being in starvation and blockade were able to resolve their issues, resisting the Azerbaijani aggression and defeating. We respect Russian culture, but I have these imperialistic ambitions, when it comes to the humiliation of my people.”
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