Russian businessman says that he will be appointed minister of state for “Nagorno-Karabakh”.
Ruben Vardanyan emphasizes that he has been holding meetings in the region for a month and a half
Former Russian businessman Ruben Vardanyan, state minister of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (DKR) at the beginning of November (Prime Minister) announced that he will be appointed.
R. Vardanyan shared about this on “Telegram” channel did.
R. Vardanyan added that in the last month he met the residents of the region, his political and public figures of different areas and social met with the representatives of the groups.
“These meetings convinced me that people support my candidacy for the position of state minister of the Republic of Artsakh (as Armenians call Nagorno-Karabakh). They want to see me as a responsible leader who will unite and lead all healthy forces around him,” he said.
On September 2, 2022, Russian, Armenian entrepreneur Ruben Vardanyan will move to Karabakh and Russia said that he renounced his citizenship.
The Armenian entrepreneur spoke about this in his video message posted on YouTube on September 1.
Born in Armenia in 1968, Ruben Vardanyan is the former owner of the Troika Dialog investment company and the founder of the Skolkovo business school.
In 2021, “Forbes” magazine for the first time put his wealth at 1 billion dollars evaluated as
R. Vardanyan said that he will transfer his assets in Russia to the family fund.
In March 2019, OCCRP published the results of its research on the Troika Dialog system of offshore companies.
Through these companies, money was secretly transferred to the most influential people in Russia, for example, Sergei Roldugin, a friend of Vladimir Putin.
204.5 from the accounts of these companies in 06-2013 billion more than dollars funds passed.
After this Europe Deputies of the Parliament demanded sanctions against Ruben Vardanyan.
Reminder
With Armenia Azerbaijan The last 44-day armed conflict between November 2020 10It ended with the agreement on a full ceasefire that entered into force in .
The history of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions dates back to 1988.
In the 90s Azerbaijan–Armenia during the first war between and later Azerbaijan the party has always accused Armenia of destroying cultural monuments.
After the second war in 2020, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of erasing cities, villages, cemeteries.