While about 50% of the Armenian population are regularly undernourished, this news comes in from Moscow:
RFE/RL Press Review, 2 December 2003
Citing a weekend report by the Russian NTV channel, "Haykakan Zhamanak"
Says President Kocharian's younger son Levon was seen last week partying at an exclusive night club in Moscow. NTV viewers were told, for example, that a bottle of champagne costs $1,000 there. The Armenian president's press secretary confirms the report. "Levon Kocharian was recently in Moscow and went to that club with friends," he tells the paper. "Haykakan Zhamanak" recalls that Kocharian said a few years ago that his son's favorite hangout is a popular water amusement center in Yerevan. "But the golden youth has already been bored by the water park," it says. "Probably because that is not an elite place and the prince has to mingle with ordinary mortals."
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Not to say that the president's son should not have friends to party with, but he needs to remember that he comes form a poverty stricken country and these things are nothing to be proud of.
This reminds me too much of Kocharian’s visit to New York in 2000, where he insisted on going to a very expensive store that sells suits that his friends in Moscow told him he had to visit. He picked out a $12,000 suit and then told his Armenian-American escort to pay for it. The escort only had $3,000 and called a rich Armenian-American who was not home, whose daughter gave a credit-card number to charge it to. The rich Armenian-American when learning what had happened went through the roof.
In short, the Kocharian’s have very expensive taste. For the president to have such a small income from the government on an offical level as he does and he and his son having such expensive taste, makes him a liability and prime to taking bribes to support his families taste.
RFE/RL Press Review, 2 December 2003
Citing a weekend report by the Russian NTV channel, "Haykakan Zhamanak"
Says President Kocharian's younger son Levon was seen last week partying at an exclusive night club in Moscow. NTV viewers were told, for example, that a bottle of champagne costs $1,000 there. The Armenian president's press secretary confirms the report. "Levon Kocharian was recently in Moscow and went to that club with friends," he tells the paper. "Haykakan Zhamanak" recalls that Kocharian said a few years ago that his son's favorite hangout is a popular water amusement center in Yerevan. "But the golden youth has already been bored by the water park," it says. "Probably because that is not an elite place and the prince has to mingle with ordinary mortals."
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Not to say that the president's son should not have friends to party with, but he needs to remember that he comes form a poverty stricken country and these things are nothing to be proud of.
This reminds me too much of Kocharian’s visit to New York in 2000, where he insisted on going to a very expensive store that sells suits that his friends in Moscow told him he had to visit. He picked out a $12,000 suit and then told his Armenian-American escort to pay for it. The escort only had $3,000 and called a rich Armenian-American who was not home, whose daughter gave a credit-card number to charge it to. The rich Armenian-American when learning what had happened went through the roof.
In short, the Kocharian’s have very expensive taste. For the president to have such a small income from the government on an offical level as he does and he and his son having such expensive taste, makes him a liability and prime to taking bribes to support his families taste.
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