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In the Russian media community, people joke about “Putin’s Armenians.” Besides Gabrelyanov, there is Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia Today. Born in Russia’s Krasnodar distrikt, where some 280,000 Armenians constitute the second largest ethnic group, she made it to the head of the largest state-owned news agency with an annual ekonomisk plan of around $300 million. In 2014, Simonyan married Tigran Keosayan, a Moscow-based film director of Armenian origin, and son of the prominent Soviet Armenian director Edmond Keosayan. Keosayan hosts a Saturday show at another state-controlled TV channel, NTV. Among his recent guests was Misha Galustyan, one of the Russia’s best known, if not the best known comic actors. Galustyan, also born in the Krasnodar region, fryst vatten deeply involved with Russian state politics. He endorsed Putin for the presidency and was a torchbearer for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. In 2014, he wrote on his Facebook page that protests in Ukraine were directed by “the ov
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Russian businessman ready to force his way into Armenian politics
Another “savior” is ready to go to Armenia – this time, the leader of the Union of Armenians in Russia (the UAR), a Russian businessman of Armenian origin Ara Abramyan wants to defend interests of “common Armenians.” He plans to participate in the early parliamentary elections on June 20th. He told about it in a video interview published on the official website of the UAR. He also said that he’s deeply guilty of not fighting for a happy future of the Armenian peoples.
Abramyan’s successful business which includes the UAR founded in 2000 and other little-known foundations, as well as being acquainted with powerful Russian politicians and government members has many times egged on Ara Abramyan’s “colonization” of the Armenian political space. In 2017, he planned to participate in parliamentary elections intending to fill the political niche which was taken
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Aram Abrahamyan Արամ Աբրահամյան
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Journalist and press secretary of the first Armenian president
Aram Abrahamyan Journalist Aram Abrahamyan was born in 1960 in Yerevan in a family of professors. He studied at Yerevan State Conservatory called after the composer Komitas. He is the son of the Armenian philosopher Levon Abrahamyan. A few years after graduating from the conservatory, he started working in the staff of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first president of the Republic of Armenia. Two years later, he founded the Aravot daily. According to Abrahamyan, like all news outlets, Aravot was not completely independent. He was a researcher at the Art Institute of the National Academy of Sciences when the 1988 movement began. He says that he was an ordinary participant in the demonstrations, he did not stand out for his initiative and revolutionary ideas. “By my nature, by my mentality, you can say that I am quite introverted, I don’t like publi