In the conversation with Aravot.am, political scientist Gagik Hambaryan referring to Kim Kardashian’s visit to Armenia and the noise around her, said, “I am surprised at the people who being far and devoid of from morality are speaking ill and talk idle about Kim Kardashian. Now, this lady is the owner of the popular reality show in America. She is an individual known to the American Media world among the high class and VIP persons. Now, this person has decided to come to Armenia and, roughly speaking, make a PR for the Republic of Armenia with her face. Can you imagine how many hundred million dollars Armenia’s government authorities would spend to publish materials about Armenia and the Armenian Genocide in European, American and other continents’ press?
During Kim Kardashian’s 3-day visit, almost all popular international media, tabloids and e-sites had referred to Kim Kardashian’s visit, at the same time, referring to the history of Armenia and the Armenian genocide. Is it bad? You may also hear that Kim Kardashian is coming to Armenia to do a PR for herself. People who think that Kim Kardashian is coming to do a PR for herself have a limited brain. Kardashian could go to Ibiza island, to the Canary Islands, Hawaii islands and getting to the beach was enough for her doing a PR. Do you know how may million followers she has on the Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites? The number of her followers goes beyond 80 million.”
According to the political scientist, only the fact that the Turkish and Azerbaijani media are on nerves because of Kim Kardashian’s visit to is already a rejoicing fact. “Only, it is amazing that we are saying things addressed to this lady what the Turks are saying. Let’s say this lady is photographed naked or her photos are found in the “Playboy”. Do you know how many thousand figures are photographed for the “Playboy”? Now, should we say that they are immoral? Hundreds of media representatives have arrived in Armenia for Kim Kardashian. Willy-nilly by some, the so-called self-styled Ombudsmen of morality, more people in the world know Kim Kardashian than the name of the country of the Republic of Armenia. I’m sorry to say, but it is a fact. We should do everything for the internationalization of the Armenian Genocide so that the same Cherilyn LaPierre Sargsyan, the famous Cher, comes to Armenia, Charles Aznavour comes with the media representatives, Irina Sargsyan comes who is known by the name Irina Allegrova so that the Russian media would be filled with this type of news and articles.
We should have compelled that Philippos Grigoryan who acts under the name Philip Kirkorov would come. We showed our upset to him, so to speak in quotations, the Bulgarian ethnicity, but we are doing everything to keep them stay away from us. Whereas, we should do everything to bring them back, and roughly speaking, to use them. How many several million dollars we were to give to the German “Bild” newspaper, let them open and see what popular European media have referred to Kim Kardashian’s arrival. Writing a small article in the “New York Times” costs 3-4 million dollars. Can you imagine how many millions dollars Azerbaijan renders? Do you see the Azerbaijani ads over “Euronews” and CNN? Without spending a penny, we fill this gap by Kim Kardashian. We did not have that much money, rather say, we have, our rich do not know that the country achieves success with the help of ads.”
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The political scientist once again reiterated that the Armenian celebrities should not be pushed off. “Kim Kardashian is called a porno star only for the fact that she once posted photos or videos, they probably do not know the real porno-starts. Popular Italian porno-star Cicciolina, who was the most relevant figures in the respective film genre, was a member of the Italian Parliament. Now, let’s say that Italy is a state of immoral because immoral and porno stars have a seat in the parliament. We can illustrate many examples of this kind, we should not insult and offend people, thus, we push them off.
Indeed, I would be very happy to see the Republic of Armenia so powerful with financial capacities and our country is recognized by Garni-Geghard and our historical monuments or values, but no … The Republic of Armenia is known mostly through the Diaspora – Charles Aznavour, Henri Verneuil, George Deukmejian in the US, who was the Governor of California. If our nation is recognized by the individuals, we should not throw mud on them. We should admit that we have a world-renowned chansonnier and world-famous media figure. Why do we remember that Kim Kardashian was photographed naked? And why do we not accept that Kim Kardashian’s reality show ranks the second in America after Oprah Winfrey’s show?”
Photo by Mher Veranyan
Nune AREVSHATYAN
Ճիշտ կըսեք։ Ես ձեր տեսանկյունէն չէի տեսներ, բայց հոդուածը կարդալէն վերջ, համաձայն եմ ձեր գրածին։
Thank you Nune for your fantastic article, I totally agree with you. Kim Kardashian is better Armenian than all of us living all over the world. Very few of us came to Armenia for this historical year. Most of the Armenians and the turkish media have almost the same negative thoughts about Kim. If Kim Kardashian was from jewish descendant, Israel would have honored her with her statues all over their homeland and here in the USA. I am glad I read your article, thank you for loving Armenians.