COMMUNISTS ENDORSE RUSSIA
Lragir.am
08 April 06

`People who will raise their hands against the Russian-Armenian
friendship are foe number one of the Armenian people,’ stated Ruben
Tovmasyan, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the
Armenian Communist Party on April 8.

And if those who raise their hands against the Russian-Armenian
friendship are those people, who are arousing an anti-Russian hysteria
on the price of gas and sale of the fifth generating unit of the
Thermal Power Plant of Hrazdan to Russia.

The leader of the Communist Party thinks this anti-Russian hysteria is
aroused by the Americans who want to break relations between Armenia
and Russia. ` God forbid this. We have to be very thoughtful with
Russia,’ says Ruben Tovmasyan.

Personally, his approach to Russia is not only thoughtful but also
tender.

He does not blame Russia for increasing the price of gas, and he does
not think that they coerced Armenians into transfer of the fifth
generating unit of the Thermal Power Plant of Hrazdan to them. `We
condemn selling people’s property, which has been done since the
1990s,’ says Ruben Tovmasyan. However, he says more with regard to the
fifth generating unit of the Thermal Power Plant. According to Ruben
Tovmasyan, not only Russia is to blame for having exercised pressure,
but also Armenia, which put it out for sale. `You put it out for sale,
and they bought it,’ says Ruben Tovmasyan, `you’ is the government and
`they’ is Russia.